Cellular pattern formation, establishment of polarity and segregation of colored cytoplasm in embryos of the nematode Romanomermis culicivorax

Developmental Biology

Volumn 315, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 426-436

  Schulze, Jens ^a   Schierenberg, Einhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Axis formation; C. elegans; Cytoplasmic segregation; Embryogenesis; Evolution; Germline; Midbody; Nematode; Polarity

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; EVOLUTION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANOMERMIS CULICIVORAX;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; ROMANOMERMIS CULICIVORAX;

EID: 39949083002     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.12.043     Document Type: Article

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