The Flamingo ortholog FMI-1 controls pioneer-dependent navigation of follower axons in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3663-3673

  Steimel, Andreas ^a   Wong, Lianna ^b   Najarro, Elvis Huarcaya ^c   Ackley, Brian D ^c   Garriga, Gian ^b   Hutter, Harald ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Axon guidance; C. Elegans; Cadherin; Flamingo; Follower; GPCR; Nervous system; Pioneer

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FLAMINGO PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PROTEIN CELSR; PROTEIN FMI 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL ROOT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78049343926     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.054320     Document Type: Article

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