The twisted pharynx phenotype in C. elegans

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Axäng, Claes ^a   Rauthan, Manish ^a   Hall, David H ^a,b   Pilon, Marc ^a,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; TORSION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; MORPHOGENESIS; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; TORSION;

EID: 34347376154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-7-61     Document Type: Article

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