Worm Breeder's Gazette 14(5): 5 (February 1, 1997)
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2539 Hishida R;Ishihara T;Kondo K;Katsura I
hch-1, a gene required for normal hatching and normal migration
of a neuroblast in C. elegans, encodes a protein related to
TOLLIOD and BMP-1.
EMBO Journal 15: 4111-4112 1996 ARTICLE
2540 Newman AP;Sternberg PW
Coordinated morphogenesis of epithelia during development of the
Caenorhabditis elegnas uterine-vulva connection.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93:
9329-9333 1996 ARTICLE
2541 Kobayashi H;Ishii N;Nagaoka S
Bioprocessing in microgravity: free flow electrophoresis of C.
elegans DNA.
Journal of Biotechnology 47: 367-376 1996 ARTICLE
2542 Hope IA;Albertson DG;Martinelli SD;Lynch AS;Sonnhammer E;Durbin R
The C. elegans expression pattern database - A beginning.
Trends in Genetics 12: 370-371 1996 ARTICLE
2543 Sawa H;Lobel L;Horvitz HR
The Caenorhabditis elegans gene lin-17, which is required for
certain asymmetric cell divisions, encodes a putative
seven-transmembrane protein similar to the Drosophila Frizzled
protein.
Genes & Development 10: 2189-2197 1996 ARTICLE
2544 Chen W;Chen S;Yap SF;Lim L
The Caenorhabditis elegans p21-activated kinase (CePAK)
colocalizes with CeRac1 and CDC42Ce at hypodermal boundaries
during embryonic elongation.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 26362-26368 1996
ARTICLE
2545 Tomlinson MG;Wright MD
A new transmembrane-4 superfamily molecule in the nematode,
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 43: 312-314 1996 REVIEW
2546 Radice AD;Lustigman S
Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding putative glutamate
transporters from Caenorhabditis elegans and Onchocerca volvulus.
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 80: 41-53 1996
ARTICLE
2547 Kaplan JM
Sensory signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Current Opinion in Neurology 6: 494-499 1996 REVIEW
2548 Barnes TM;Hodgkin J
The tra-3 sex determination gene of Caenorhabditis elegans
encodes a member of the calpain regulatory protease family.
EMBO Journal 15: 4477-4484 1996 ARTICLE
2549 Mannen H;Li SSL
The lactate dehydrogenase gene from nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans contains only 2 of 6 introns conserved in the
protein-encoding sequence of LDH genes from bird and mammals.
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology International 37:
1057-1061 1996 ARTICLE
2550 Chin-Sang ID;Spence AM
Caenorhabditis elegans sex-determining protein FEM-2 is a protein
phosphatase that promotes male development and interacts directly
with FEM-3.
Genes & Development 10: 2314-2325 1996 ARTICLE
2551 Labouesse M;Hartwieg E;Horvitz HR
The Caenorhabditis elegans LIN-26 protein is required to specify
and/or maintain all non-neuornal ectodermal cell fates.
Development 122: 2579-2588 1996 ARTICLE
2552 Sundaram M;Yochem J;Han M
A Ras-mediated signal transduction pathway is involved in the
control of sex myoblast migration in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development 122: 2823-2833 1996 ARTICLE
2553 Borgonie G;Claeys M;Leyns F;Arnaut G;De Waele D;Coomans A
Effect of nematicidal Bacillus thuringiensis strains on
free-living nematodes. 2. Ultrastructural analysis of the
intoxication process in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Fundamental & Applied Nematology 19: 407-414 1996
ARTICLE
2554 Van Voorhies WA
Bergmann size clines: A simple explanation for their occurrence
in ectotherms.
Evolution 50: 1259-1264 1996 ARTICLE
2555 Suzuki N;Inokuma K;Yasuda K;Ishii N
Cloning, sequencing and mapping of a manganese
superoxidedismutase gene of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
DNA Research 3: 171-174 1996 ARTICLE
2556 Kushibiki Y;Ishii N;Yanase S;Nakazawa H
Molecular cloning of oxygen-inducible genes in Caenorhabditis
elegans by RT-PCR differential display.
Pathophysiology 3: 107-110 1996 ARTICLE
2557 Grauso M;Culetto E;Berge J-B;Toutant J-P;Arpagaus M
Sequence comparison of ACE-1, the gene encoding
acetylcholinesterase of class A, in the two nematodes
Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae.
DNA Sequence 6: 217-227 1996 ARTICLE
2558 Benian GM;Tang X;Tinley TL
Twitchin and related giant IG superfamily members of C. elegans
and other invertebrates.
Advanced Biophysics 33: 183-197 1996 REVIEW
2559 de Bono M;Hodgkin J
Evolution of sex determination in Caenorhabditis: Unusually high
divergence of tra-1 and its functional consequences.
Genetics 144: 587-595 1996 ARTICLE
2560 Kuwabara PE
Interspecies comparison reveals evolution of control regions in
the nematode sex-determining gene tra-2.
Genetics 144: 597-607 1996 ARTICLE
2561 Browning H;Berkowitz L;Madej C;Paulson JE;Zolan ME;Strome S
Macrorestriction analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans genomic DNA.
Genetics 144: 609-619 1996 ARTICLE
2562 Wang W;Shakes DC
Molecular evolution of the 14-3-3 protein family.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 43: 384-398 1996 ARTICLE
2563 Brownlee DJA;Fairweather I;Holden-Dye L;Walker RJ
Nematode neuropeptides: Localization, isolation and functions.
Parasitology Today 12: 343-389 1996 REVIEW
2564 Fukushige T;Schroeder DF;Allen FL;Goszczynski B;McGhee JD
Modulation of gene expression in the embryonic digestive tract of
C. elegans.
Developmental Biology 178: 276-288 1996 ARTICLE
2565 Azzaria M;Goszczynski B;Chung MA;Kalb JM;McGhee JD
A fork head/HNF-3 homolog expressed in the pharynx and intestine
of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Developmental Biology 178: 289-303 1996 ARTICLE
2566 Agostoni E;Albertson D;Wittmann C;Hill F;Tobler H;Muller F
cec-1, a soma-specific chromobox-containing gene in C. elegans.
Developmental Biology 178: 316-326 1996 ARTICLE
2567 Powell-Coffman JA;Knight J;Wood WB
Onset of C. elegans gastrulation is blocked by inhibition of
embryonic transcription with an RNA polymerase antisense RNA.
Developmental Biology 178: 472-483 1996 ARTICLE
2568 Terrill WF;Dusenbery DB
Threshold chemosensitivity and hypothetical chemoreceptor
function of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Chemical Ecology 22: 1463-1475 1996 ARTICLE
2569 Ingham PW
Has the quest for a Wnt receptor finally frizzled out?
Trends in Genetics 12: 382-384 1996 REVIEW
2570 Crowder CM;Shebester LD;Schedl T
Behavioral-effects of volatile anesthetics in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Anesthesiology 85: 782-783 1996 ARTICLE
2571 Chan SS-Y;Zheng H;Su M-W;Wilk R;Killeen MT;Hedgecock EM;Culotti
JG
UNC-40, a C. elegans homolog of DCC (deleted in colorectal
cancer), is required in motile cells responding to UNC-6 netrin
cues.
Cell 87: 187-195 1996 ARTICLE
2572 Draper BW;Mello CC;Bowerman B;Hardin J;Priess JR
MEX-3 is a KH domain protein that regulates blastomere identity
in early C. elegans embryos.
Cell 87: 205-216 1996 ARTICLE
2573 Hunter CP;Kenyon C
Spatial and temporal controls target pal-1
blastomere-specification activity to a single blastomere lineage
in C. elegans embryos.
Cell 87: 217-226 1996 ARTICLE
2574 Bigot Y;Auge-Gouillou C;Periquet G
Computer analyses reveal a hobo-like element in the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans, which presents a conserved transposase
domain common with the Tc1-Mariner transposon family.
Gene 174: 265-271 1996 ARTICLE
2575 Sassa T;Ogawa H;Kimoto M;Hosono R
The synaptic protein UNC-18 is phosphorylated by protein kinase
C.
Neurochemistry International 29: 543-552 1996 ARTICLE
2576 Sommer RJ;Carta LK;Kim SY;Sternberg PW
Morphological, genetic and molecular description of Pristionchus
pacificus sp. n. (Nematoda: Neodiplogastridae).
Fundamentals of Applied Nematology 19: 511-522 1996
ARTICLE
2577 Barinaga M
Mutant mice and worms help solve mysteries of olfaction.
Science 274: 500-501 1996 REVIEW
2578 Lithgow G
Invertebrate gerontology: the age mutations of Caenorhabditis
elegans.
BioEssays 18: 809-815 1996 REVIEW
2579 Hamill OP;McBride DW
A supramolecular complex underlying touch sensitivity.
Trends in Neurosciences 19: 258-261 1996 REVIEW
2580 Seydoux G
Mechanisms of translational control in early development.
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 6: 555-561
1996 REVIEW
2581 Boyd L;Guo S;Levitan D;Stinchcomb DT;Kemphues KJ
PAR-2 is asymmetrically distributed and promotes association of P
granules and PAR-1 with the cortex in C. elegans embryos.
Development 122: 3075-3084 1996 ARTICLE
2582 Harris J;Honigberg L;Robinson N;Kenyon C
Neuronal cell migration in C. elegans: regulation of Hox gene
expression and cell position.
Development 122: 3117-3131 1996 ARTICLE
2583 Watts JL;Etemad-Moghadam B;Guo S;Boyd L;Draper BW;Mello CC;Priess
JR;Kemphues KJ
par-6, a gene involved in the establishment of asymmetry in early
C. elegans embryos, mediates the asymmetric localization of
PAR-3.
Development 122: 3133-3140 1996 ARTICLE
2584 Coburn CM;Bargmann CI
A putative cyclic nucleotide-gated channel is required for
sensory development and function in C. elegans.
Neuron 17: 695-706 1996 ARTICLE
2585 Komatsu H;Mori I;Rhee J-S;Akaike N;Ohshima Y
Mutations in a cyclic nucleotide-gated channel lead to abnormal
thermosensation and chemosensation in C. elegans.
Neuron 17: 707-718 1996 ARTICLE
2586 Schackwitz WS;Inoue T;Thomas JH
Chemosensory neurons function in parallel to mediate a pheromone
response in C. elegans.
Neuron 17: 719-728 1996 ARTICLE
2587 Gengyo-Ando K;Kitayama H;Mukaida M;Ikawa Y
A murine neural-specific homolog corrects cholinergic defects in
Caenorhabditis elegans unc-18 mutants.
Journal of Neuroscience 16: 6695-6702 1996 ARTICLE
2588 Hoppe PE;Waterston RH
Hydrophobicity variations along the surface of the coiled-coil
rod may mediate striated muscle myosin assembly in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Journal of Cell Biology 135: 371-382 1996 ARTICLE
2589 Grenache DG;Caldicott I;Albert PS;Riddle DL;Politz SM
Environmental induction and genetic control of surface antigen
switching in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
12388-12393 1996 ARTICLE
2590 Miller KG;Alfonso A;Nguyen M;Crowell JA;Johnson CD;Rand JB
A genetic selection for Caenorhabditis elegans synaptic
transmission mutants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
12593-12598 1996 ARTICLE
2591 Wicks SR;Rankin CH
The integration of antagonistic reflexes revealed by laser
ablation of identified neurons determines habituation kinetics of
the Caenorhabditis elegans tap withdrawal response.
Journal of Comparative Physiology A 170: 675-685 1996
ARTICLE
2592 Driscoll M
Cell death in C. elegans: Molecular insights into mechanisms
conserved between nematodes and mammals.
Brain Pathology 6: 411-425 1996 REVIEW
2593 Ogawa H;Hayashi N;Hori I;Kobayashi T;Hosono R
Expression, purification and characterization of recombinant C.
elegans UNC-18.
Neurochemistry International 29: 553-563 1996 ARTICLE
2594 Tornoe C;Holden-Dye L;Garland C;Abramson SN;Fleming JT;Sattelle
DB
Lophotoxin-insensitive nematode nicotinic acetylcholine
receptors.
Journal of Experimental Biology 199: 2161-2168 1996
ARTICLE
2595 Tessier-Lavigne M;Goodman CS
The molecular biology of axon guidance.
Science 274: 1123-1133 1996 REVIEW
2596 Orsulic S;Peifer M
Cell-cell signaling: Wingless lands at last.
Current Biology 6: 1363-1367 1996 REVIEW
2597 Tanaka T;Ikita K;Ashida T;Motoyama Y;Yamaguchi Y;Satouchi K
Effects of growth temperature on the fatty acid composition of
the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Lipids 31: 1173-1178 1996 ARTICLE
2598 Yamamoto K;Honda S;Ishii N
Properties of an oxygen-sensitive mutant mev-3 of the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Mutation Research-Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of
Mutagenesis 358: 1-6 1996 ARTICLE
2599 Kawano T;Takuwa K;Nakajima T
Molecular cloning of a cDNA for the glutamate transporter of the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 228:
415-420 1996 ARTICLE
2600 Ren PF;Lim C-S;Johnsen R;Albert PS;Pilgrim D;Riddle DL
Control of C. elegans larval development by neuronal expression
of a TGF-Beta homolog.
Science 274: 1389-1391 1996 ARTICLE
2601 Goedert M;Baur CP;Ahringer J;Jakes R;Hasegawa M;Spillant MG;Smith
MJ;Hill F
PTL-1, a microtubule-associated protein with tau-like repeats
from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Cell Science 109: 1662-1672 1996 ARTICLE
2602 Ochoa C;Rodriguez J;Lopez Garcia ML;Ramon Martinez A;Mercedes
Martinez M
Anthelmintic activity of 6,7-diaryl-pteridines.
Arzneimittel-Forschung 46: 643-648 1996 ARTICLE
2603 Tsipouras A;Adefarati AA;Tkacz JS;Frazier EG;Rohrer SP;Birzin
E;Rosegay A;Zink DL;Goetz MA;Singh SB;Schaeffer J
Ophiobolin M and analogues, noncompetitive inhibitors of
ivermectin binding with nematocidal activity.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 4: 531-536 1996 ARTICLE
2604 Drescher U
Netrins find their receptor.
Nature 384: 416-417 1996 REVIEW
2605 Lieb JD;Capowski EE;Meneely P;Meyer BJ
DPY-26, a link between dosage compensation and meiotic chromosome
segregation in the nematode.
Science 274: 1732-1736 1996 ARTICLE
2606 Chuang P-T;Lieb JD;Meyer JB
Sex-specific assembly of a dosage compensation complex on the
nematode X chromosome.
Science 274: 1736-1739 1996 ARTICLE
2607 Guenther C;Garriga G
Asymmetric distribution of the C. elegans HAM-1 protein in
neuroblasts enables daughter cells to adopt distinct fates.
Development 122: 3509-3518 1996 ARTICLE
2608 Newman AP;White JG;Sternberg PW
Morphogenesis of the C. elegans hermaphrodite uterus.
Development 122: 3617-3626 1996 ARTICLE
2609 Ha I;Wightman B;Ruvkun G
A bulged lin-4/lin-14 RNA duplex is sufficient for Caenorhabditis
elegans lin-14 temporal gradient formation.
Genes & Development 10: 3041-3050 1996 ARTICLE
2610 Jones AR;Francis R;Schedl T
GLD-1, a cytoplasmic protein essential for oocyte
differentiation, shows stage- and sex-specific expression during
Caenorhabditis elegans germline development.
Developmental Biology 180: 165-183 1996 ARTICLE
2611 Gruidl ME;Smith PA;Kuznicki KA;McCrone JS;Kirchner J;Roussell
DL;Strome S;Bennett KL
Multiple potential germ-line helicases are components of the
germ-line-specific P granules of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
13837-13842 1996 ARTICLE
2612 Wei A;Jegla T;Salkoff L
Eight potassium channel families revealed by the C. elegans
genome project.
Neuropharmacology 35: 805-829 1996 ARTICLE
2613 Li XJ;Greenwald I
Membrane topology of the C. elegans SEL-12 presenilin.
Neuron 17: 1015-1021 1996 ARTICLE
2614 Zhu X;Joh K;Fiori K
Nucleotide sequence of ribosomal protein L3 cDNA and the
exon-intron structure of L3 gene in the nematode, Caenorhabditis
elegans.
DNA Sequence 6: 299-302 1996 ARTICLE
2615 Linder B;Jin ZJ;Freedman JH;Rubin CS
Molecular characterization of a novel, developmentally regulated
small embryonic chaperone from Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 271: 30158-30166 1996
ARTICLE
2616 Borgonie G;Claeys M;Leyns F;Arnaut G;De Waele D;Coomans A
Effect of a nematicidal Bacillus thuringiensis strain on
free-living nematodes. 3. Characterization of the intoxication
process.
Fundamental & Applied Nematology 19: 523-528 1996
ARTICLE
2617 Lambie EJ
Cell-cell communication: Receptor function at the junction.
Current Biology 6: 1089-1091 1996 REVIEW
2618 Wood WB;Bergmann D;Florance A
Maternal effect of low temperature on handedness determination in
C. elegans embryos.
Developmental Genetics 19: 222-230 1996 ARTICLE
2619 Broeks A;Gerrard B;Allikmets R;Dean M;Plasterk RHA
Homologues of the human multidrug resistance genes MRP and MDR
contribute to heavy metal resistance in the soil nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
EMBO Journal 15: 6132-6143 1996 ARTICLE
2620 Fong S;Hamill SJ;Proctor M;Freund SMV;Benian GM;Chothia C;Bycroft
M;Clarke J
Structure and stability of an immunoglobulin superfamily domain
from twitchin, a muscle protein of the nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Journal of Molecular Biology 264: 624-639 1996 ARTICLE
2621 Masson JY;Tremblay S;Ramotar D
The Caenorhabditis elegans gene Ceapn-1 encodes a homolog of
Escherichia coli and yeast apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease.
Gene 179: 291-293 1996 ARTICLE
2622 Scott AL
Nematode sperm.
Parasitology Today 12: 425-430 1996 REVIEW
2623 Blumenthal T;Spieth J
Gene structure and organization in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 6: 692-698 1996
REVIEW
2624 Osborne BA
Cell death in vertebrates: lessons from the worm.
Trends in Genetics 12: 489-491 1996 REVIEW
2625 You SJ;Dochoi J;Cho NJ
Ligand-binding properties of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors
in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Bio Mol B 29: 525-529 1996 ARTICLE
2626 Podbilewicz B
ADM-1, a protein with metalloprotease-like and disintegrin-like
domains, is expressed in syncytial organs, sperm, and sheath
cells of sensory organs in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Molecular Biology of the Cell 7: 1877-1893 1996 ARTICLE
2627 Korswagen HC;Durbin RM;Smits MT;Plasterk RHA
Transposon Tc1-derived, sequence-tagged sites in Caenorhabditis
elegans as markers for gene mapping.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
14680-14685 1996 ARTICLE
2628 Levitan D;Doyle TG;Brousseau D;Lee MK;Thinakaran G;Slunt
HH;Sisodia SS;Greenwald I
Assessment of normal and mutant human presenilin function in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:
14940-14944 1996 ARTICLE
2629 Baines AJ
Caenorhabditis elegans lin-2A and mammalian neuronal cask are
prototypical members of a subfamily of MAGUKS
(membrane-associated guanylate kinases) characterized by a common
kinase-like domain and a guanylate kinase domain predicted to
bind ATP.
Biochemical Journal 320: 694-696 1996 ARTICLE
2630 Chen WN;Yap SF;Lim L
Isolation of the gene coding for Caenorhabditis elegans Rac2
homologue, a ras-related smll GTP-binding protein.
Gene 180: 217-219 1996 ARTICLE
2631 Cline TW;Meyer BJ
Vive la difference: Males vs females in flies vs worms.
Annual Review of Genetics 30: 637-702 1996 REVIEW