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Regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans body size and male tail development by the novel gene lon-8

BACKGROUND: In C. elegans and other nematode species, body size is determined by the composition of the extracellular cuticle as well as by the nuclear DNA content of the underlying hypodermis. Mutants that are defective in these processes can exhibit either a short or a long body size phenotype. Se...

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Autores principales: Soete, Gwen, Betist, Marco C, Korswagen, Hendrik C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17374156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-7-20