Limitation of the size of the vulval primordium of Caenorhabditis elegans by lin-15 expression in surrounding hypodermis.

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Limitation of the size of the vulval primordium of Caenorhabditis elegans by lin-15 expression in surrounding hypodermis.

Nature - 8 Nov 1990

Herman R K, Hedgecock E M

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In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans six hypodermal cells, the vulval precursor cells, are each competent to generate vulval cells. Normally only the three nearest precursor cells to the uterine anchor cell generate the vulva (22 nuclei), while the three others fuse with the non-specialized hyp...

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Animals
Caenorhabditis
Cell Differentiation
Embryonic Induction
Genotype
Mosaicism

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