Worm Breeder's Gazette 14(3): 3 (June 1, 1996)
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2354 Rushforth AM;Anderson P
Splicing removes the Caenorhabditis elegans transposon Tc1
from most mutant pre-messenger RNAs.
Molecular & Cellular Biology 16: 422-429 1996
ARTICLE
2355 Jia Y;Xie GF;Aamodt E
pag-3 a Caenorhabditis elegans gene involved in touch neuron
gene expression and coordinated movement.
Genetics 142: 141-147 1996 ARTICLE
2356 Marks NJ;Shaw C;Maule AG;Davis JP;Halton DW;Verhaert P;Geary
TG;Thompson DP
Isolation of AF2 (KHEYLRFamide) from Caenorhabditis elegans -
Evidence for the presence of more than one FMRFamide related
peptide-encoding gene.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research
Communications 217: 845-851 1995 ARTICLE
2357 Fitzgerald K;Greenwald I
Interchangeability of Caenorhabditis elegans DSL proteins and
intrinsic signalling activity of their extracellular domains
in vivo.
Development 121: 4275-4282 1995 ARTICLE
2358 Morgan PG;Sedensky MM
Mutations affecting sensitivity to ethanol in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Alcoholism, Clinical & Experimental Research 19:
1423-1429 1995 ARTICLE
2359 Xu J;Lapham J;Crothers DM
Determining RNA solution structure by segmental isotopic
labeling and NMR: Application to Caenorhabditis elegans
spliced leader RNA 1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA 93: 44-48 1996 ARTICLE
2360 Davies AM
Neural development. Chemoattractants for navigating axons.
Current Biology 4: 1142-1145 1994 REVIEW
2361 Artavanis-Tsakonas S;Matsuno K;Fortini ME
Notch signaling.
Science 268: 225-232 1995 REVIEW
2362 Chalfie M
The differentiation and function of the touch receptor neurons
of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Progress in Brain Research 105: 179-182 1995
REVIEW
2363 Williams PL;Dusenbery DB
Screening test for Neurotoxins using Caenorhabditis elegans.
Model Systems in Neurotoxicology: Alternative
Approaches to Animal Testing : 163-170 1995
ARTICLE
2364 Roush W
Sperm protein makes its mark upon the worm embryo.
Science 271: 33 1996 REVIEW
2365 Buck LB
Unraveling chemosensory diversity.
Cell 83: 349-352 1995 REVIEW
2366 Kim SK
Tight junctions, membrane-associated guanylate kinases and
cell signaling.
Current Biology 7: 641-649 1995 REVIEW
2367 Theriot JA
Worm sperm and advances in cell locomotion.
Cell 84: 1-4 1996 REVIEW
2368 Chalfie M;Eddy S;Hengartner MO;Hodgkin J;Kohara Y;Plasterk
RHA;Waterston RH;White JG
Genome Maps VI. Caenorhabditis elegans.
Science 270: 415-430 1995 CHART
2369 Jones SJ
An update and lessons from whole-genome sequencing projects.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 5:
349-353 1995 REVIEW
2370 Koelle MR;Horvitz HR
EGL-10 regulates G protein signaling in the C. elegans nervous
system and shares a conserved domain with many mammalian
proteins.
Cell 84: 115-125 1996 ARTICLE
2371 Davis MW;Somerville D;Lee RYN;Lockery S;Avery L;Fambrough DM
Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans Na,K-ATPase
alpha-subunit gene, eat-6, disrupt excitable cell function.
Journal of Neuroscience 15: 8408-8418 1995
ARTICLE
2372 Labbe J-C;Jannatipour M;Rokeach LA
The Caenorhabditis elegans rop-1 gene encodes the homologue of
the human 60-kDa Ro autoantigen.
Gene 167: 227-231 1995 ARTICLE
2373 Larminie CGC;Johnstone IL
Isolation and characterization of four developmentally
regulated cathepsin B-like cysteine protease genes from the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
DNA & Cell Biology 15: 75-82 1996 ARTICLE
2374 Savage C;Das P;Finelli AL;Townsend SR;Sun CY;Baird SE;Padgett RW
Caenorhabditis elegans genes sma-2, sma-3 and sma-4 define a
conserved family of transforming growth factor beta pathway
components.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA 93: 790-794 1996 ARTICLE
2375 Katz WS;Lesa GM;Yannoukakos D;Clandinin TR;Schlessinger
J;Sternberg PW
A point mutation in the extracellular domain activated LET-23,
the Caenorhabditis elegans epidermal growth factor receptor
homolog.
Molecular and Cellular Biology 16: 529-537 1996
ARTICLE
2376 White J;Strome S
Cleavage plane specification in C. elegans: How to divide the
spoils.
Cell 84: 195-198 1996 REVIEW
2377 Ebina Y;Okada H;Miki T;Shingai R
An extraction method of dynamic features in pulsing organs of
Caenorhabditis elegans during feeding.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
E79D: 82-91 1996 ARTICLE
2378 Wadsworth WG;Bhatt H;Hedgecock EM
Neuroglia and pioneer neurons express UNC-6 to provide global
and local netrin cues for guiding migrations in C. elegans.
Neuron 16: 35-46 1996 ARTICLE
2379 Du HP;Gu GQ;William CM;Chalfie M
Extracellular proteins needed for C. elegans mechanosensation.
Neuron 16: 183-194 1996 ARTICLE
2380 Hirabayashi J;Ubukata T;Kasai K
Purification and molecular characterization of a novel 16-kDa
galectin from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 2497-2505
1996 ARTICLE
2381 Sommer RJ;Sternberg PW
Apoptosis and change of competence limit the size of the vulva
equivalence group in Pristionchus pacificus: a genetic
analysis.
Current Biology 6: 52-59 1996 ARTICLE
2382 Hoskins R;Hajnal AF;Harp SA;Kim SK
The C. elegans vulval induction gene lin-2 encodes a member of
the MAGUK family of cell junction proteins.
Development 122: 97-111 1996 ARTICLE
2383 Browning H;Strome S
A sperm-supplied factor required for embryogenesis in C.
elegans.
Development 122: 391-404 1996 ARTICLE
2384 Geary TG;Bowman JW;Friedman AR;Maule AG;Davis JP;Winterrowd
CA;Klein RD;Thompson DP
The pharmacology of FMRFamide-related neuropeptides in
nematodes: New opportunities for rational anthelmintic
discovery?
International Journal for Parasitology 25:
1273-1280 1995 ARTICLE
2385 Moerman DG;Hutter H;Mullen GP;Schnabel R
Cell autonomous expression of perlecan and plasticity of cell
shape in embryonic muscle of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Developmental Biology 173: 228-242 1996 ARTICLE
2386 Sommer RJ;Sternberg PW
Evolution of nematode vulval fate patterning.
Developmental Biology 173: 396-407 1996 REVIEW
2387 Youngman S;van Luenen HGAM;Plasterk RHA
Rte-1, a retrotransposon-like element in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
FEBS Letters 380: 1-7 1996 ARTICLE
2388 Yuan JY
Evolutionary conservation of a genetic pathway of programmed
cell death.
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 60: 4-11 1996
REVIEW
2389 Davis RE
Spliced leader RNA trans-splicing in metazoa.
Parasitology Today 12: 33-40 1996 REVIEW
2390 Gems D;Riddle DL
Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans reduced by mating but not
gamete production.
Nature 379: 723-725 1996 ARTICLE
2391 Hengartner MO
Programmed cell death in invertebrates.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 6:
34-38 1996 REVIEW
2392 Hird S
Cortical actin movements during the first cell cycle of the
Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Journal of Cell Science 109: 525-533 1996
ARTICLE
2393 Hugunin M;Quintal LJ;Mankovich JA;Ghayur T
Protease activity of in vitro transcribed and translated
Caenorhabditis elegans cell death gene (ced-3) product.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 3517-3522
1996 ARTICLE
2394 Jones CA;Hartman PS
Replication in UV-irradiated Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.
Photochemistry & Photobiology 63: 187-192 1996
ARTICLE
2395 Smith H;Campbell WC
Effect of ivermectin on Caenorhabditis elegans larvae
previously exposed to alcoholic immobilization.
Journal of Parasitology 82: 187-188 1996 ARTICLE
2396 Sakai T;Koga M;Ohshima Y
Genomic structure and 5' regulatory regions of the let-23 gene
in the nematode C. elegans.
Journal of Molecular Biology 256: 548-555 1996
ARTICLE
2397 Coulson A
The Caenorhabditis elegans genome project.
Biochemical Society Transactions 24: 289-291 1996
REVIEW
2398 Shook DR;Brooks A;Johnson TE
Mapping quantitative trait loci affecting life history traits
in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 142: 801-817 1996 ARTICLE
2399 Xie GF;Jia Y;Aamodt E
A C. elegans mutant screen based on antibody or histochemical
staining.
Genetic Analysis: Biomolecular Engineering 12:
95-100 1995 ARTICLE
2400 Schnabel R;Weigner C;Hutter H;Feichtinger R;Schnabel H
mex-1 and the general partitioning of cell fate in the early
C. elegans embryo.
Mechanisms of Development 54: 133-147 1996
ARTICLE
2401 Vanfleteren JR;DeVreese A
Rate of aerobic metabolism and superoxide production-rate
potential in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Experimental Zoology 274: 93-100 1996
ARTICLE
2402 Reis RJS;Ebert RH
Genetics of aging: Current animal models.
Experimental Gerontology 31: 69-81 1996 REVIEW
2403 Wightman B;Clark SG;Taskar AM;Forrester WC;Maricq AV;Bargmann
CI;Garriga G
The C. elegans gene vab-8 guides posteriorly directed axon
outgrowth and cell migration.
Development 122: 671-682 1996 ARTICLE
2404 Sengupta P;Bargmann CI
Cell fate specification and differentiation in the nervous
system of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Developmental Genetics 18: 73-80 1996 REVIEW
2405 Ziegler C
Titin-related proteins in invertebrate muscles.
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 109A:
823-833 1994 REVIEW
2406 Kreeger KY
Hot papers: Programmed cell death.
The Scientist 10: 15 1996 REVIEW
2407 Agarwal P;States DJ
The Repeat Pattern Toolkit (RPT): Analyzing the structure and
evolution of the C. elegans genome.
ISMB 2: 1-9 1994 ARTICLE
2408 Veretnik S;Schatz B
Pattern discovery in gene regulation; designing an analysis
environment.
ISMB 1: 411-419 1993 ARTICLE
2409 Harrop SA;Prociv P;Brindley PJ
Amplification and characterization of cysteine proteinase
genes from nematodes.
Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 46: 119-122 1995
ARTICLE
2410 Worley KC;King KY;Chua S;McCabe ER;Smith RF
Identification of new members of a carbohydrate
kinase-encoding gene family.
Journal of Computational Biology 2: 451-458 1995
ARTICLE
2411 Benian GM;Tinley TL;Tang XX;Borodovsky M
The Caenorhabditis elegans gene unc-89, required for muscle
M-line assembly, encodes a giant modular protein composed of
Ig and signal transduction domains.
Journal of Cell Biology 132: 835-848 1996
ARTICLE
2412 Euling S;Ambros V
Heterochronic genes control cell cycle progress and
developmental competence of C. elegans vulva precursor cells.
Cell 84: 667-676 1996 ARTICLE
2413 Shaham S;Horvitz HR
Developing Caenorhabditis elegans neurons may contain both
cell-death protective and killer activities.
Genes & Development 10: 578-591 1996 ARTICLE
2414 Myers CD;Goh PY;Allen TS;Bucher EA;Bogaert T
Developmental genetic analysis of troponin T mutations in
striated and nonstriated muscle cells of Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Journal of Cell Biology 132: 1061-1077 1996
ARTICLE
2415 Vos JC;De Baere I;Plasterk RHA
Transposase is the only nematode protein required for in vitro
transposition of Tc1.
Genes & Development 10: 755-761 1996 ARTICLE
2416 Herman RK
Touch sensation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
BioEssays 18: 199-206 1996 REVIEW
2417 Herman RK
Worm spadework.
Genetics 142: 1065-1068 1996 REVIEW
2418 Plunkett JA;Simmons RB;Walthall WW
Dynamic interactions between nerve and muscle in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Developmental Biology 175: 154-165 1996 ARTICLE
2419 Roush W
Regulating G protein signaling.
Science 271: 1056-1058 1996 REVIEW
2420 Kenyon C
Ponce d'elegans: Genetic quest for the fountain of youth.
Cell 84: 501-504 1996 REVIEW
2421 Sengupta P;Chou JH;Bargmann CI
odr-10 encodes a seven transmembrane domain olfactory receptor
required for responses to the odorant diacetyl.
Cell 84: 899-909 1996 ARTICLE
2422 Miura M;Yuan JY
Mechanisms of programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans
and vertebrates.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology 32:
139-174 1996 REVIEW
2423 Duhon SA;Murakami S;Johnson TE
Direct isolation of longevity mutants in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Developmental Genetics 18: 144-153 1996 ARTICLE
2424 Creutz CE;Snyder SL;Daigle SN;Redick J
Identification, localization, and functional implications of
an abundant nematode annexin.
Journal of Cell Biology 132: 1079-1082 1996
ARTICLE
2425 Hedgecock EM;Hall DH
Homologies in the neurogenesis of nematodes, arthropods and
chordates.
Seminars in The Neurosciences 2: 159-172 1990
REVIEW
2426 Dewji NN;Singer SJ
Genetic clues to Alzheimer's disease.
Science 271: 159-160 1996 REVIEW
2427 Tanaka Y;Ohta A;Matsuo M;Sakamoto H
Developmental expression pattern of the Caenorhabditis elegans
homologue of the Drosophila suppressor of forked gene.
DNA Research 2: 143-146 1995 ARTICLE
2428 Duffy JB;Perrimon N
Recent advances in understanding signal transduction pathways
in worms and flies.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology 8: 231-238 1996
REVIEW
2429 Plasterk RHA
Postsequence genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genome Research 6: 169-175 1996 REVIEW
2430 Ebert RH;Shammas MA;Sohal BH;Sohal RS;Egilmez NK;Ruggles S;Reis
RJS
Defining genes that govern longevity in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Developmental Genetics 18: 131-143 1996 ARTICLE
2431 Barstead RJ
Molecular biology of Caenorhabditis elegans.
"Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular
Medicine. Achilles' Cleavage to
Cytoskeleton-Plasma Membrane Interactions."
Meyers, R.A. (ed). VCH Publishers, Inc., New
York, NY. 1: 227-237 1996 REVIEW
2432 Hengartner M
Molecular mechanisms of cell death and aging.
"Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular
Medicine. Achilles' Cleavage to
Cytoskeleton-Plasma Membrane Interactions."
Meyers, R.A. (ed). VCH Publishers, Inc., New
York, NY. 1: 299-303 1996 REVIEW
2433 Candido EPM;Jones D
Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans strains as biosensors.
Trends in Biotechnology 14: 125-129 1996 ARTICLE
2434 Hird SN;Paulsen JE;Strome S
Segregation of germ granules in living Caenorhabditis elegans
embryos: Cell-type-specific mechanisms for cytoplasmic
localization.
Development 122: 1303-1312 1996 ARTICLE
2435 Kim J;Kim YC;Lee JH;Jang YJ;Chung IK;Koo HS
cDNA cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of
Caenorhabditis elegans DNA topoisomerase I.
European Journal of Biochemistry 237: 367-372
1996 ARTICLE
2436 Simske JS;Kaech SM;Harp SA;Kim SK
LET-23 receptor localization by the cell junction protein
LIN-7 during C. elegans vulval induction.
Cell 85: 195-204 1996 ARTICLE
2437 Lints R;Driscoll M
Programmed and pathological cell death in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
"Cellular Aging and Cell Death." Holbrook NJ,
Martin GR and Rockshin RA (eds), Wiley-Liss,
New York. : 235-253 1996 REVIEW
2438 Henriksen O
The little worm that could.
NCRR Reporter 20: 4-7 1996 REVIEW
2439 Cherniak C
Neural component placement.
Trends in Neurosciences 18: 522-527 1995 ARTICLE
2440 Hecht RM;Norman MA;Vu T;Jones W
A novel set of uncoordinated mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans
uncovered by cold-sensitive mutations.
Genome 39: 459-464 1996 ARTICLE
2441 Ballivet M;Alloid C;Bertrand S;Bertrand D
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Molecular Biology 258: 261-269 1996
ARTICLE