Two classes of gap junction channels mediate soma-germline interactions essential for germline proliferation and gametogenesis in caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1127-1153

  Starich, Todd A ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Greenstein, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN 14; INNEXIN 21; INNEXIN 22; INNEXIN 8; INNEXIN 9; NOTCH RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHANNEL GATING; EPISTASIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREEZE FRACTURE; GAMETOGENESIS; GAP JUNCTION; GERM CELL; GERMLINE STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITE; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVULATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAMETOGENESIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OVULATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84908608335     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.168815     Document Type: Article

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