Analysis of a Caenorhabditis elegans twist homolog identifies conserved and divergent aspects of mesodermal patterning

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 2623-2635

  Harfe, Brian D ^a,b   Gomes, Ana Vaz ^c   Kenyon, Cynthia ^d   Liu, Jun ^a   Krause, Michael ^c   Fire, Andrew ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; CeE DA; ceh 24; CeTwist; egl 15; mab 5; NdE box

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN TWIST; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TWIST RELATED FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543032767     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.16.2623     Document Type: Article

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