Construction of developmental lineage relationships in the mouse mammary gland by single-cell RNA profiling

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pal, Bhupinder ^a,b   Chen, Yunshun ^a,b   Vaillant, François ^a,b   Jamieson, Paul ^a   Gordon, Lavinia ^a   Rios, Anne C ^a,b   Wilcox, Stephen ^a   Fu, Naiyang ^a,b   Liu, Kevin He ^a   Jackling, Felicity C ^a   Davis, Melissa J ^a,b   Lindeman, Geoffrey J ^a,b,c   Smyth, Gordon K ^a,d   Visvader, Jane E ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY ACCELERATING FACTOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROGENEITY; RNA;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST EPITHELIUM CELL; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; UDDER;

ANIMALS; CD55 ANTIGENS; CELL LINEAGE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85034642667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01560-x     Document Type: Article

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