PAR-3 is required for epithelial cell polarity in the distal spermatheca of C. elegans

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2865-2874

  Aono, Shinya ^a,c   Legouis, Renaud ^b   Hoose, Wendy A ^a   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell polarity; Gonadogenesis; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; RNA; SYNAPTOJANIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROFILAMENT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVULATION INHIBITION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; STEM CELL; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; GONADS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 3242886603     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01146     Document Type: Article

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