Dauer larva quiescence alters the circuitry of microRNA pathways regulating cell fate progression in C. elegans

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2177-2186

  Karp, Xantha ^a,b   Ambros, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Dauer; Heterochronic; MicroRNA; Quiescence

Indexed keywords

HUNCHBACK LIKE 1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; LET 7; LIN 4; LIN 46 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NHL 2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84861406978     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.075986     Document Type: Article

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