Gene nomenclature guidelines for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3099-3101

  Reddien, Peter W ^a   Newmark, Phillip A ^b   Alvarado, Alejandro Sánchez ^c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nomenclature; Planarians; Regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; PLANARIANS;

PLANARIA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 55549099625     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21623     Document Type: Short Survey

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