Residual body removal during spermatogenesis in C. elegans requires genes that mediate cell corpse clearance

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 4613-4622

  Huang, Jie ^a,b   Wang, Haibin ^c,d   Chen, Yingyu ^b   Wang, Xiaochen ^d   Zhang, Hong ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Autophagy; C. elegans; Engulfment; Phagosome; Ps; Residual body

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; RAB PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; LYSOSOMES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOSOMES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84870024590     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.086769     Document Type: Article

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