Article
daf-1, a C. elegans gene controlling dauer larva development, encodes a novel receptor protein kinase.
Cell - 18 May 1990
Georgi L L, Albert P S, Riddle D L
Abstract excerpt
The dauer larva is a developmentally arrested, non-feeding dispersal stage normally formed in response to overcrowding and limited food. The daf-1 gene specifies an intermediate step in a hierarchy of genes thought to specify a pathway for neural transduction of environmental cues. Mutations in daf-1 result in constitutive formation of dauer larvae even in abundant food. This gene has been cloned by...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Caenorhabditis
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Genes
- Larva
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation