Non-stringent tissue-source requirements for BMP ligand expression in regulation of body size in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics Research

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 427-432

  Savage Dunn, Cathy ^a   Yu, Ling ^a   Gill, Kwesi ^a   Awan, Muhammad ^a   Fernando, Thilini ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN DBL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTATION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHARYNX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84555177325     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672311000310     Document Type: Article

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