Identifying regulators of morphogenesis common to vertebrate neural tube closure and Caenorhabditis elegans gastrulation

Genetics

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 123-139

  Sullivan Brown, Jessica L ^a,c   Tandon, Panna ^a   Bird, Kim E ^a   Dickinson, Daniel J ^a,b   Tintori, Sophia C ^a   Heppert, Jennifer K ^a   Meserve, Joy H ^a,b   Trogden, Kathryn P ^a   Orlowski, Sara K ^a   Conlon, Frank L ^a,b   Goldstein, Bob ^a,b  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ABI 1 GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEX 2 GENE; GEX 3 GENE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; NUO 3A GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WORM; WVE 1 GENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GEX-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HELMINTH RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WVE-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84953911241     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.183137     Document Type: Article

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