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EGO-1 is related to RNA-directed RNA polymerase and functions in germ-line development and RNA interference in C. elegans.
Current biology : CB - 24 Feb 2000
Smardon A, Spoerke J M, Stacey S C, Klein M E, Mackin N, Maine E M
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BACKGROUND: Cell-fate determination requires that cells choose between alternative developmental pathways. For example, germ cells in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans choose between mitotic and meiotic division, and between oogenesis and spermatogenesis. Germ-line mitosis depends on a somatic signal that is mediated by a Notch-type signaling pathway. The ego-1 gene was originally identified on the basis...
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