Genetic screens for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants defective in left/right asymmetric neuronal fate specification

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2109-2130

  Sarin, Sumeet ^a   O'Meara, M Maggie ^a   Flowers, Eileen B ^a   Antonio, Celia ^a   Poole, Richard J ^a   Didiano, Dominic ^a   Johnston Jr , Robert J ^a   Chang, Sarah ^a   Narula, Surinder ^a   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COG 1 HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GFP PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REPORTER; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34548396772     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.075648     Document Type: Article

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