A spectrum of pleiotropic consequences in development due to changes in a regulatory pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Escalante, Ana E ^a,b   Inouye, Sumiko ^c   Travisano, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUA GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84865301529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043413     Document Type: Article

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