Cuticle chirality and body handedness in Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)23:3<164::AID-DVG2>3.0.CO;2-C

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Cuticle chirality and body handedness in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1998

Bergmann D C, Crew J R, Kramer J M, Wood W B

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Caenorhabditis elegans adult animals exhibit an inherent chirality of fiber orientation in the basal layer of the cuticle, as well as a naturally invariant but experimentally reversible handedness in the left-right (L-R) asymmetry of the body plan. We have examined the relationship between cuticl...

Topics

Animals
Body Patterning
Caenorhabditis elegans
Genes, Helminth
Microscopy, Electron
Models, Biological
Mutation
Phenotype
Temperature

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