A Transcriptional Lineage of the Early C. elegans Embryo

Developmental Cell

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 430-444

  Tintori, Sophia C ^a   Osborne Nishimura, Erin ^a,b   Golden, Patrick ^a   Lieb, Jason D ^a   Goldstein, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84995475503     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.07.025     Document Type: Article

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