Apoptosis and change of competence limit the size of the vulva equivalence group in Pristionchus pacificus: a genetic analysis.

doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00421-9

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Apoptosis and change of competence limit the size of the vulva equivalence group in Pristionchus pacificus: a genetic analysis.

Current biology : CB - 1 Jan 1996

Sommer R J, Sternberg P W

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BACKGROUND: To understand how alterations in the molecular mechanisms underlying developmental processes generate a diversity of biological forms, comparative developmental biology can be combined with genetic analysis. The formation of the nematode vulva is one tractable system for such evolutio...

Topics

Animals
Apoptosis
Biological Evolution
Female
Male
Mutation
Rhabditida
Vulva

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