Geometry, epistasis, and developmental patterning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5568-5575

  Corson, Francis ^a   Siggia, Eric Dean ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Modeling; Signaling dynamics

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL TYPE; EPISTASIS; GEOMETRY; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULVA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84859581036     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201505109     Document Type: Article

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