The Caenorhabditis elegans gonad: A test tube for cell and developmental biology

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-22

  Albert Hubbard, E Jane ^a   Greenstein, David ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cells signaling; Meiosis; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; GAMETE; GERM LINE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LARVA; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; VULVA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0343729870     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(200005)218:1<2::AID-DVDY2>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Review

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