Genetics of egg-laying in worms

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2006, Pages 487-509

  Schafer, William F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; EGG LAYING; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUTANT; NEMATODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYNAPSE; WORM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOVEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; OVIPOSITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33845636602     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090527     Document Type: Review

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