Developmental biology of the social amoeba: History, current knowledge and prospects

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Urushihara, Hideko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Development; Dictyostelium discoideum; Signal transduction; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMOEBA; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIRUS SURVIVAL;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 44249111032     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01013.x     Document Type: Review

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