A genetic pathway for the specification of the vulval cell lineages of Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1038/326259a0

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A genetic pathway for the specification of the vulval cell lineages of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Ferguson E L, Sternberg P W, Horvitz H R

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Twenty-three genes have been assigned to particular steps in a genetic pathway for the specification of the vulval cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Mutations in most of these genes cause homoeotic transformations in the fates of individual cells, suggesting that these lineage...

Topics

Animals
Caenorhabditis
Cell Differentiation
Cell Line
Genes, Homeobox
Morphogenesis
Mutation

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