The role of the ELAV homologue EXC-7 in the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans excretory canals

Developmental Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 290-301

  Fujita, Masaki ^a,d   Hawkinson, Dana ^b   King, Kevin V ^b   Hall, David H ^c   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Buechner, Matthew ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apical cytoskeleton; ELAV; Epithelial polarity; Excretory canals; RNA binding; Spectrin

Indexed keywords

HU ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN EXC 7; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXCRETION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HATCHING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMA 1 GENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0344211463     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(03)00040-X     Document Type: Article

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