Exploring developmental and physiological functions of fatty acid and lipid variants through worm and fly genetics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 119-148

  Zhu, Huanhu ^a   Han, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; cell signaling; disease; Drosophila; human; lipid biology; metabolism

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; ENDOCANNABINOID; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; ICOSANOID; LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SPHINGOLIPID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

AGING; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MATURATION; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GERM LINE; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOGENESIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WORM; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FATTY ACIDS; GENOMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS;

EID: 84913549572     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-041814-095928     Document Type: Article

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