A quantitative model of normal Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis and its disruption after stress

Developmental Biology

Volumn 374, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-23

  Richards, Julia L ^a   Zacharias, Amanda L ^a   Walton, Travis ^a   Burdick, Joshua T ^a   Murray, John Isaac ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell lineage; Image analysis; Microscopy; Robustness; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84872396644     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.11.034     Document Type: Article

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