lin-35 Rb acts in the major hypodermis to oppose Ras-mediated vulval induction in C. elegans

Developmental Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-123

  Myers, Toshia R ^a   Greenwald, Iva ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYNCYTIUM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VULVA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; VULVA;

HYPODERRIS;

EID: 11244252136     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2004.11.015     Document Type: Article

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