Establishment of POP-1 asymmetry in early C. elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3547-3556

  Park, Frederick D ^a   Priess, James R ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Frizzled; Polarity; POP 1; Wnt

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0042476581     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00563     Document Type: Article

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