Genetic Networks in the Early Development of Caenorhabditis elegans

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 234, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-100

  Platzer, Ute ^a   Meinzer, Hans Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blastomere; Caenorhabditis elegans; Computer simulation; Embryonic development; Fate specification; Genetic network

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; RNA POLYMERASE II;

BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GERM LINE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 1942502197     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(04)34002-7     Document Type: Article

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