Publication Date:
1997-10-23
Description:
The fate of ventral epidermal cells differs among nematode species. Nonvulval cells fuse with the epidermis in Caenorhabditis elegans, whereas the homologous cells undergo apoptosis in Pristionchus pacificus. The homeotic gene lin-39 is involved in the regulation of these epidermal cell fates. In Caenorhabditis, lin-39 prevents cell fusion of potential vulval cells and specifies the vulva equivalence group. Pristionchus vulvaless mutants that displayed apoptosis of the vulval precursor cells were isolated, and point mutations in lin-39 were identified. Thus, the evolution of these epidermal cell fates is driven by different intrinsic properties of homologous cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Eizinger, A -- Sommer, R J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Oct 17;278(5337):452-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max-Planck Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Abteilung Zellbiologie, Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tubingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9334302" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Apoptosis
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Base Sequence
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*Biological Evolution
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Caenorhabditis elegans/cytology/genetics/growth & development
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Cell Fusion
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Cell Lineage
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Epidermis/cytology
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Exons
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Female
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*Genes, Helminth
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*Genes, Homeobox
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Phenotype
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Rhabditida/*cytology/*genetics
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Stem Cells/cytology
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Vulva/cytology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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