A Ras-mediated signal transduction pathway is involved in the control of sex myoblast migration in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2823-2833

  Sundaram, Meera ^a   Yochem, John ^a   Han, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; ksr 1; let 60; Migration; Ras; Sex myoblast; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, RAS; GONADS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 10144220631     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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