FLI-1 Flightless-1 and LET-60 Ras control germ line morphogenesis in C. elegans

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lu, Jiamiao ^a,b   Dentler, William L ^a   Lundquist, Erik A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN LET 60; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1; ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; FLIGHTLESS 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; FLIGHTLESS-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LET 60 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LET-60 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM-LINE MUTATION; GONADS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 44349189740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-8-54     Document Type: Article

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