Structure and evolution of the C. elegans embryonic endomesoderm network

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1789, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 250-260

  Maduro, Morris F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell fate specification; Development; Endomesoderm; Gene network

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE STRUCTURE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MESODERM;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 64249131056     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.07.013     Document Type: Review

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