The temporally regulated transcription factor SEL-7 controls developmental timing in C. elegans

Developmental Biology

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 246-257

  Xia, Dan ^a   Huang, Xinxin ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

C. elegans; hbl 1; Heterochronic gene; mdt 29; sel 7

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN DAF 12; PROTEIN LET 7; PROTEIN LIN 46; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HBL 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SEL 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH REGULATION; INTRON; LARVAL STAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 67651119864     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.05.574     Document Type: Article

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