Chemosensory control of surface antigen switching in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-252

  Olsen, D P ^a,b   Phu, D ^a   Libby, L J M ^a   Cormier, J A ^a   Montez, K M ^a   Ryder, E F ^a   Politz, S M ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemosensation; Nematode surface; Neuroendocrine behaviour

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; EPITOPE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; DYNEIN ATPASE; EPITOPES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; ION CHANNELS; KINESIN; LARVA; MUTANT PROTEINS; SKIN; SMELL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 34247098918     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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