IgCAMs redundantly control axon navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Neural Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schwarz, Valentin ^a   Pan, Jie ^b   Voltmer Irsch, Susanne ^a   Hutter, Harald ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GROWTH CONE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY RECEPTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CUES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEUROGENESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 65449145640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-4-13     Document Type: Article

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