Article
Combinatorial control of touch receptor neuron expression in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Nov 1993
Mitani S, Du H, Hall D H, Driscoll M, Chalfie M
Abstract excerpt
Six touch receptor neurons with distinctive morphological features sense gentle touch in Caenorhabditis elegans. Previous studies have identified three genes (lin-32, unc-86 and mec-3) that regulate touch cell development. However, since other cell types also require these genes, we suspected that other genes help restrict the expression of touch cell characteristics to the six neurons seen in the wild type. To...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Cell Differentiation
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genotype
- Microscopy, Electron
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neurons, Afferent