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ceh-16/engrailed patterns the embryonic epidermis of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Feb 2005
Cassata Giuseppe, Shemer Gidi, Morandi Paolo, Donhauser Roland, Podbilewicz Benjamin, Baumeister Ralf
Abstract excerpt
engrailed is a homeobox gene essential for developmental functions such as differentiation of cell populations and the onset of compartment boundaries in arthropods and vertebrates. We present the first functional study on engrailed in an unsegmented animal: the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In the developing worm embryo, ceh-16/engrailed is predominantly expressed in one bilateral row of epidermal cells (the...
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