Internalization of multiple cells during C. elegans gastrulation depends on common cytoskeletal mechanisms but different cell polarity and cell fate regulators

Developmental Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Harrell, Jessica R ^a   Goldstein, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INTERNALIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78651259224     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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