The anchor cell initiates dorsal lumen formation during C. elegans vulval tubulogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 328, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-304

  Estes, Kathleen A ^a   Hanna Rose, Wendy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AJM 1; Cell migration; fos 1; lin 3; TAT 2; unc 40; unc 6; zmp 1

Indexed keywords

MARKER; NETRIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO; FOS1 GENE; GENE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBULOGENESIS; UTERUS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 63349097145     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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