Genetic redundancy in endoderm specification within the genus Caenorhabditis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 509-522

  Maduro, Morris F ^a,e   Hill, Russell J ^b,f   Heid, Paul J ^c,g   Newman Smith, Erin D ^a   Zhu, Jiangwen ^a,c   Priess, James R ^b,d   Rothman, Joel H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Endoderm; GATA factor; Genetic redundancy; Germ layers; Transcription

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PARALOGY; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 23944455882     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

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