Article
Control of cell fate in the tail region of C. elegans by the gene egl-5.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Apr 1991
Chisholm A
Abstract excerpt
The tail region of C. elegans contains a number of blast cell and neuron types that either are found only in the tail, or are different from more anterior homologues. In egl-5 mutants, the fates of many of these tail cells are abnormal or transformed to those of anterior homologues. The affected cells are related only by position and not by ancestry. egl-5 is also required for normal development of the somatic...
Topics
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis
- Mosaicism
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Tail