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2442 Felix MA;Sternberg PW;De Ley P
Sinistral nematode population.
Nature 381: 122 1996 REVIEW
2443 Winter CE;Penha C;Blumenthal T
Comparison of a vitellogenin gene between two distantly related
Rhabditid nematode species.
Molecular Biology & Evolution 13: 674-684 1996 ARTICLE
2444 Lee M;Cheung HT
Isolation and characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans
extracellular matrix.
Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications 221:
503-509 1996 ARTICLE
2445 Waldmann R;Champigny G;Voilley N;Lauritzen I;Lazdunski M
The mammalian degenerin MDEG, an amiloride-sensitive cation
channel activated by mutations causing neurodegeneration in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 10433-10436 1996
ARTICLE
2446 Minniti AN;Sadler C;Ward S
Genetic and molecular analysis of spe-27, a gene required for
spermiogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites.
Genetics 143: 213-223 1996 ARTICLE
2447 Run JQ;Steven R;Hung MS;Vanweeghel R;Culotti JG;Way JC
Suppressors of the unc-73 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 143: 225-236 1996 ARTICLE
2448 Grant B;Greenwald I
The Caenorhabditis elegans sel-1 gene, a negative regulator of
lin-12 and glp-1, encodes a predicted extracellular protein.
Genetics 143: 237-247 1996 ARTICLE
2449 Arata Y;Akimoto Y;Hirabayashi J;Kasai K-I;Hirano H
An immunohistochemical study of the 32-kDa galectin
(Beta-galactoside-binding lectin) in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Histochemical Journal 28: 201-207 1996 ARTICLE
2450 Bossinger O;Schierenberg E
The use of fluorescent marker dyes for studying intercellular
communication in nematode embryos.
International Journal of Developmental Biology 40:
431-439 1996 ARTICLE
2451 Goldstein B;Hird SN
Specification of the anteroposterior axis in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Development 122: 1467-1474 1996 ARTICLE
2452 Christensen S;Kodoyianni V;Bosenberg M;Friedman L;Kimble J
lag-1, a gene required for lin-12 and glp-1 signaling in
Caenorhabditis elegans, is homologous to human CBF1 and
Drosophila Su(H).
Development 122: 1373-1383 1996 ARTICLE
2453 Salser SJ;Kenyon C
A C. elegans Hox gene switches on, off, on and off again to
regulate proliferation, differentiation and morphogenesis.
Development 122: 1651-1661 1996 ARTICLE
2454 Xue D;Shaham S;Horvitz HR
The Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death protein CED-3 is a
cysteine protease with substrate specificities similar to those
of the human CPP32 protease.
Genes & Development 10: 1073-1083 1996 ARTICLE
2455 Pennisi E
Worm genes imply a master clock.
Science 272: 949-950 1996 REVIEW
2456 Lakowski B;Hekimi S
Determination of life-span in Caenorhabditis elegans by four
clock genes.
Science 272: 1010-1013 1996 ARTICLE
2457 Grady D
A worm's life: Right mutation makes it long but very dull.
New York Times May 21: B5-B8 1996 REVIEW
2458 Lundquist EA;Herman RK;Rogalski TM;Mullen GP;Moerman DG;Shaw JE
The mec-8 gene of C. elegans encodes a protein with two RNA
recognition motifs and regulates alternative splicing of unc-52
transcripts.
Development 122: 1601-1610 1996 ARTICLE
2459 Machaca K;DeFelice LJ;L'Hernault SW
A novel chloride channel localizes to Caenorhabditis elegans
spermatids and chloride channel blockers induce spermatid
differentiation.
Developmental Biology 176: 1-16 1996 ARTICLE
2460 Bossinger O;Schierenberg E
Early embryonic induction in C. elegans can be inhibited with
polysulfated hydrocarbon dyes.
Developmental Biology 176: 17-21 1996 ARTICLE
2461 Wadsworth WG;Hedgecock EM
Hierarchical guidance cues in the developing nervous system of
C. elegans.
BioEssays 18: 355-362 1996 REVIEW
2462 Ahringer J
Posterior patterning by the Caenorhabditis elegans even-skipped
homolog vab-7.
Genes & Development 10: 1120-1130 1996 ARTICLE
2463 Zhang HB;Blumenthal T
Functional anaylsis of an intron 3' splice site in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
RNA 2: 380-388 1996 ARTICLE
2464 Culotti JG;Kolodkin AL
Functions of netrins and semaphorins in axon guidance.
Current Opinion in Neurology 6: 81-88 1996 REVIEW
2465 Garcia-Anoveros J;Corey DP
Mechanosensation - Touch at the molecular level.
Current Biology 6: 541-543 1996 REVIEW
2466 Brundage L;Avery L;Katz A;Kim UJ;Mendel JE;Sternberg PW;Simon MI
Mutations in a C. elegans G(Q)alpha gene disrupt movement, egg
laying, and viability.
Neuron 16: 999-1009 1996 ARTICLE
2467 Jones D;Stringham EG;Babich SL;Candido EPM
Transgenic strains of the nematode C. elegans in biomonitoring
and toxicology: Effects of captan and related compounds on the
stress response.
Toxicology 109: 119-127 1996 ARTICLE
2468 Wicks SR;Roehrig CJ;Rankin CH
A dynamic network simulation of the nematode tap withdrawal
circuit: Predictions concerning synaptic function using
behavioral criteria.
Journal of Neuroscience 16: 4017-4031 1996 ARTICLE
2469 Biswas SN;Ebina Y;Okada H;Shingai R
A phenomenological model describing pharyngeal pulsing in the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans anesthetized by alcohol.
Research Communications in Molecular Pathology &
Pharmacology 92: 233-244 1996 ARTICLE
2470 Bossinger O;Wiegner O;Schierenberg E
Embryonic gut differentiation in nematodes: Endocytosis of
macromolecules and its experimental inhibition.
Rouxs Archives of Developmental Biology 205: 494-497
1996 ARTICLE
2471 Lai CC;Hong K;Kinnell M;Chalfie M;Driscoll M
Sequence and transmembrane topology of MEC-4, an ion channel
subunit required for mechanotransduction in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Journal of Cell Biology 133: 1071-1081 1996 ARTICLE
2472 Page AP;MacNiven K;Hengartner MO
Cloning and biochemical characterization of the cyclophilin
homologues from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Biochemical Journal 317: 179-185 1996 ARTICLE
2473 Kipreos ET;Lander LE;Wing JP;He WW;Hedgecock EM
cul-1 is required for cell cycle exit in C. elegans and
identifies a novel gene family.
Cell 85: 829-839 1996 ARTICLE
2474 Barnes TM;Jin Y;Horvitz HR;Ruvkun G;Hekimi S
The Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral gene unc-24 encodes a
bipartite protein similar to both erythrocyte band 7.2
(stomatin) and non-specific lip transfer protein.
Journal of Neurochemistry 67: 46-57 1996 ARTICLE
2475 Baumeister R;Liu Y;Ruvkun G
Lineage-specific regulators couple cell lineage asymmetry to
the transcription of the Caenorhabditis elegans POU gene unc-86
during neurogenesis.
Genes & Development 10: 1395-1410 1996 ARTICLE
2476 Tabara H;Motohashi T;Kohara Y
A multi-well version of in situ hybridization on whole mount
embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nucleic Acids Research 24: 2119-2124 1996 ARTICLE
2477 Katz W;Sternberg PW
Intercellular signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval
pattern formation.
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 7: 175-183
1996 REVIEW
2478 Ferguson KC;Heid PJ;Rothman JH
The SL1 trans-spliced leader RNA performs an essential
embryonic function in Caenorhabditis elegans that can also be
supplied by SL2 RNA.
Genes & Development 10: 1543-1556 1996 ARTICLE
2479 Mickey KM;Mello CC;Montgomery MK;Fire A;Priess JR
An inductive interaction in 4-cell stage C. elegans embryos
involves APX-1 expression in the signalling cell.
Development 122: 1791-1798 1996 ARTICLE
2480 Wang LL;Way JC
Activation of the mec-3 promoter in two classes of stereotyped
lineages in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Mechanisms of Development 56: 165-181 1996 ARTICLE
2481 Wang LL;Way JC
Promoter sequences for the establishment of mec-3 expression in
the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Mechanisms of Development 56: 183-196 1996 ARTICLE
2482 Gu GQ;Caldwell GA;Chalfie M
Genetic interactions affecting touch sensitivity in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
6577-6582 1996 ARTICLE
2483 Hubbard EJA;Dong Q;Greenwald I
Evidence for physical and functional association between EMB-5
and LIN-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Science 273: 112-115 1996 ARTICLE
2484 Miller LM;Waring DA;Kim SK
Mosaic analysis using a ncl-1(+) extrachromosomal array reveals
that lin-31 acts in the Pn.p cells during Caenorhabditis
elegans vulval development.
Genetics 143: 1181-1191 1996 ARTICLE
2485 Malone EA;Inoue T;Thomas JH
Genetic analysis of the roles of daf-28 and age-1 in regulating
Caenorhabditis elegans dauer formation.
Genetics 143: 1193-1205 1996 ARTICLE
2486 Murakami S;Johnson TE
A genetic pathway conferring life extension and reistance to UV
stress in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 143: 1207-1218 1996 ARTICLE
2487 Schafer WR;Sanchez BM;Kenyon CJ
Genes affecting sensitivity to serotonin in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Genetics 143: 1219-1230 1996 ARTICLE
2488 Lithgow GJ;Kirkwood TBL
Mechanisms and evolution of aging.
Science 273: 80 1996 REVIEW
2489 Corey DP;Garcia-Anoveros J
Mechanosensation and the DEG/ENaC ion channels.
Science 273: 323-324 1996 REVIEW
2490 Liu J;Schrank B;Waterston RH
Interaction between a putative mechanosensory membrane channel
and a collagen.
Science 273: 361-364 1996 ARTICLE
2491 Schnabel R
Pattern formation: Regional specification in the early C.
elegans embryo.
BioEssays 18: 591-594 1996 REVIEW
2492 Felix M-A;Sternberg PW
Symmetry breakage in the development of one-armed gonads in
nematodes.
Development 122: 2129-2142 1996 ARTICLE
2493 Kuwabara PE
A novel regulatory mutation in the C. elegans sex determination
gene tra-2 defines a candidate ligand/receptor interaction
site.
Development 122: 2089-2098 1996 ARTICLE
2494 Shelton CA;Bowerman B
Time-dependent responses to glp-1-mediated inductions in early
C. elegans embryos.
Development 122: 2043-2050 1996 ARTICLE
2495 Roush W
Divide and confer: How worm embryo cells specialize.
Science 272: 1871 1996 REVIEW
2496 Jazwinski SM
Longevity, genes and aging.
Science 273: 54-58 1996 REVIEW
2497 Wicky C;Rose AM
The role of chromosome ends during meiosis in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
BioEssays 18: 447-452 1996 REVIEW
2498 Sundaram M;Han M
Control and integration of cell signaling pathways during C.
elegans vulval development.
BioEssays 18: 473-480 1996 REVIEW
2499 Martin GM;Austad SN;Johnson TE
Genetic analysis of ageing: Role of oxidative damage and
environmental stresses.
Nature Genetics 13: 25-34 1996 REVIEW
2500 Johnson TE;Lithgow GJ;Murakami S;Duhon SA;Shook DR
Genetics of aging and longevity in lower organisms.
"Cellular Aging and Cell Death." Holbrook NJ, Martin GR
and Rockshin RA (eds), Wiley-Liss, New York. : 1-17
1996 REVIEW
2501 Zhen M;Schein JE;Baillie DL;Candido EPM
An essential ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme with tissue and
developmental specificity in the nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans.
EMBO Journal 15: 3229-3237 1996 ARTICLE
2502 Etter A;Cully DF;Schaeffer JM;Liu KK;Arena JP
An amino acid substitution in the pore region of a
glutamate-gated chloride channel enables the coupling of ligand
binding to channel gating.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 16035-16039 1996
ARTICLE
2503 Cowing D;Kenyon C
Correct Hox gene expression established independently of
position in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature 382: 353-356 1996 ARTICLE
2504 Gaudet J;Vanderelst I;Spence AM
Post-transcriptional regulation of sex determination in
Caenorhabditis elegans - Widespread expression of the
sex-determining gene fem-1 in both sexes.
Molecular Biology of the Cell 7: 1107-1121 1996 ARTICLE
2505 Starich TA;Lee RYN;Panzarella C;Avery L;Shaw JE
eat-5 and unc-7 represent a multigene family in Caenorhabditis
elegans involved in cell-cell coupling.
Journal of Cell Biology 134: 537-548 1996 ARTICLE
2506 Guo S;Kemphues KJ
A non-muscle myosin required for embryonic polarity in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature 382: 455-458 1996 ARTICLE
2507 McDermott JB;Aamodt S;Aamodt E
ptl-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans gene whose products are
homologous to the tau microtubule-associated protein.
Biochemistry 35: 9415-9423 1996 ARTICLE
2508 Kader NA;Cote MG
Isolation, identification and characterization of some strains
of Caenorhabditis elegans (Maupas, 1900) from Quebec.
Fundamental & Applied Nematology 19: 381-389 1996
ARTICLE
2509 Borgonie G;Claeys M;Leyns F;Arnaut G;Dewaele D;Coomans A
Effect of nematicidal Bacillus thuringiensis strains on
free-living nematodes. 1. Light microscopic observations,
species and biological stage specificity and identification of
resistant mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Fundamental & Applied Nematology 19: 391-398 1996
ARTICLE
2510 Kloek AP;McCarter JP;Setterquist RA;Schedl T;Goldberg DE
Caenorhabditis globin genes - Rapid intronic divergence
contrasts with conservation of silent exonic sites.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 43: 101-108 1996
ARTICLE
2511 Oosumi T;Garlick B;Belknap WR
Identification of putative nonautonomous transposable elements
associated with several transposon families in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 43: 11-18 1996 ARTICLE
2512 Johnstone IL;Barry JD
Temporal reiteration of a precise gene expression pattern
during nematode development.
EMBO Journal 15: 3633-3639 1996 ARTICLE
2513 Benecke M;Epplen JT;Schierenberg E
(GTG)(5) allows the distinction between different isolates of
the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Electrophoresis 17: 1194 1996 ARTICLE
2514 Morris JZ;Tissenbaum HA;Ruvkun G
A phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase family member regulating
longevity and diapause in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature 382: 536-539 1996 ARTICLE
2515 Metzstein MM;Hengartner MO;Tsung N;Ellis RE;Horvitz HR
Transcriptional regulator of programmed cell death encoded by
Caenorhabditis elegans gene ces-2.
Nature 382: 545-547 1996 ARTICLE
2516 Shaham S;Horvitz HR
An alternatively spliced C. elegans ced-4 RNA encodes a novel
cell death inhibitor.
Cell 86: 201-208 1996 ARTICLE
2517 Wicks SR;Rankin CH
Recovery from habituation in Caenorhabditis elegans is
dependent on interstimulus interval and not habituation
kinetics.
Behavioral Neuroscience 110: 840-844 1996 ARTICLE
2518 Basson M;Horvitz HR
The Caenorhabditis elegans gene sem-4 controls neuronal and
mesodermal cell development and encodes a zinc finger protein.
Genes & Development 10: 1953-1965 1996 ARTICLE
2519 Iwasaki K;McCarter J;Francis R;Schedl T
emo-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans Sec61p homologue, is required
for oocyte development and ovulation.
Journal of Cell Biology 134: 699-714 1996 ARTICLE
2520 Euling S;Ambros V
Reversal of cell fate determination in Caenorhabditis elegans
vulval development.
Development 122: 2507-2515 1996 ARTICLE
2521 Bettinger JC;Lee K;Rougvie AE
Stage-specific accumulation of the terminal differentiation
factor LIN-29 during Caenorhabditis elegans development.
Development 122: 2517-2527 1996 ARTICLE
2522 Morgan PG;Usiak MF;Sedensky MM
Genetic differences affecting the potency of stereoisomers of
isoflurane.
Anesthesiology 85: 385-392 1996 ARTICLE
2523 Moulder GL;Huang MM;Waterston RH;Barstead RJ
Talin requires beta-integrin, but not vinculin, for its
assembly into focal adhesion-like structures in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Molecular Biology of the Cell 7: 1181-1193 1996
ARTICLE
2524 Johnson KA;Quiocho FA
Twitching worms catch S100.
Nature 380: 585-587 1996 REVIEW
2525 Zwaal RR;Ahringer J;van Luenen HGAM;Rushforth A;Anderson
P;Plasterk RHA
G proteins are required for spatial orientation of early cell
cleavages in C. elegans embryos.
Cell 86: 619-629 1996 ARTICLE
2526 Seydoux G;Mello CC;Pettitt J;Wood WB;Priess JR;Fire A
Repression of gene expression in the embryonic germ lineage of
C. elegans.
Nature 382: 713-716 1996 ARTICLE
2527 Mello CC;Schubert C;Draper B;Zhang W;Lobel R;Priess JR
The PIE-1 protein and germline specification in C. elegans
embryos.
Nature 382: 710-712 1996 ARTICLE
2528 Thompson CB
A fate worse than death.
Nature 382: 492-493 1996 REVIEW
2529 Emmons SW
Simple worms, complex genes.
Nature 382: 301-302 1996 REVIEW
2530 Sommer RJ;Sternberg PW
Using nematode vulva development to model the evolution of
developmental systems.
"Molecular Zoology: Advances, Strategies; and
Protocols." Ferraris JD and SR Palumbi (eds);
Wiley-Liss, Inc., New York, NY. : 209-220 1996 REVIEW
2531 Guo S;Kemphues KJ
Molecular genetics of asymmetric cleavage in the early
Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 6: 408-415
1996 REVIEW
2532 Zetka MC;Muller F
Telomeres in nematodes.
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 7: 59-64 1996
REVIEW
2533 Kessin RH;Gunderson GG;Zaydfudim V;Grimson M
How cellular slime molds evade nematodes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
4857-4861 1996 ARTICLE
2534 Hartman P;Goldstein P;Algarra M;Hubbard D;Mabery J
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is up to 39 times more
sensitive to gamma radiation generated from Cs137 than from
Co60.
Mutation Research-DNA Repair 363: 201-208 1996 ARTICLE
2535 Wicky C;Villeneuve AM;Lauper N;Codourey L;Tobler H;Muller F
Telomeric repeats (TTAGGC)(N) are sufficient for chromosome
capping function in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
8983-8988 1996 ARTICLE
2536 Maryon EB;Coronado R;Anderson P
unc-68 encodes a ryanodine receptor involved in regulating C.
elegans body-wall muscle contraction.
Journal of Cell Biology 134: 885-893 1996 ARTICLE
2537 Veijola J;Annunen P;Koivunen P;Page AP;Pihlajaniemi T;Kivirikko KI
Baculovirus expression of 2 protein disulphide isomerase
isoforms from Caenorhabditis elegans and characterization of
prolyl 4-hydroxylases containing 1 of these polypeptides as
their beta subunit.
Biochemical Journal 317: 721-729 1996 ARTICLE
2538 Bossinger O;Schierenberg E
Cell-cell communication in nematode embyros: differences
between Cephalobus spec. and Caenorhabditis elegans.
Dev Genes Evol 206: 25-34 1996 ARTICLE