HAIRY-like Transcription Factors and the Evolution of the Nematode Vulva Equivalence Group

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1386-1394

  Schlager, Benjamin ^a   Röseler, Waltraud ^a   Zheng, Min ^a   Gutierrez, Arturo ^a   Sommer, Ralf J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; ECO_EVOL

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VULVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEMATODA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PANAGRELLUS REDIVIVUS; PRISTIONCHUS; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 33746020799     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.06.058     Document Type: Article

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