gon-14 functions with class B and class C synthetic multivulva genes to control larval growth in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 915-928

  Chesney, Michael A ^a   Kidd III, Ambrose R ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN GON 14; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VULVA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33644774562     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.048751     Document Type: Article

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