The flightless I homolog, fli-1, regulates anterior/posterior polarity, asymmetric cell division and ovulation during Caenorhabditis elegans development

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 847-860

  Deng, Hansong ^a,b   Xia, Dan ^a,b   Fang, Bin ^b   Zhang, Hong ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ZYGOTE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OVULATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 35549011828     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.078964     Document Type: Article

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