The let-7 microRNA directs vulval development through a single target

Developmental Cell

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 335-344

  Ecsedi, Matyas ^a,b   Rausch, Magdalene ^a,b   Großhans, Helge ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PROTEIN LIN 41; RAS PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; LET-7 MICRORNA, C ELEGANS; LIN-41 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LET 7 GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UTERUS; VULVAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; ORGANOGENESIS; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VULVA;

EID: 84922784540     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.12.018     Document Type: Article

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