Cis-regulatory mechanisms of gene expression in an olfactory neuron type in Caenorhabditis elegans

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3080-3092

  Nokes, Eva B ^a   Van Der Linden, Alexander M ^a   Winslow, Caron ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Saikat ^a   Ma, Kristin ^a   Sengupta, Piali ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Chemoreceptors; cis regulatory motifs; Olfactory neuron

Indexed keywords

LIM PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70949108185     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22147     Document Type: Article

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