Stem cell proliferation versus meiotic fate decision in Caenorhabditis elegans

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-99

  Hansen, Dave ^a   Schedl, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Germ line; GLD 1 pathway; GLD 2 pathway; GLP 1 Notch; Meiotic fate; Proliferative fate; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN CYE 1; PROTEIN GLD 1; PROTEIN GLD 2; PROTEIN GLD 3; PROTEIN GLP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; FBF 1 GENE; FBF 2 GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GLD 1 GENE; GLP GENE; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TERATOMA; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL;

EID: 84867537626     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_4     Document Type: Article

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