The cellular geometry of growth drives the amino acid economy of Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2747-2754

  Swire, Jonathan ^a   Fuchs, Silke ^a   Bundy, Jacob G ^a   Leroi, Armand M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Gene expression profiling; Growth; Metabolomics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; NEMATODE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; GEOMETRY; GROWTH; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 67650927732     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0354     Document Type: Article

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