Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of metazoa

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sebé Pedrós, Arnau ^a,b   Irimia, Manuel ^c   del Campo, Javier ^a   Parra Acero, Helena ^a   Russ, Carsten ^d   Nusbaum, Chad ^d   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^c   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,b,e  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHIDICOLIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HYDROXYUREA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNTAXIN;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CAPSASPORA OWCZARZAKI; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT VESICLE; UPREGULATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); CELL CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMOEBA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891553972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.01287     Document Type: Article

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