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University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108-1095
2874 Evans D;Zorio D;MacMorris M;Winter CE;Lea K;Blumenthal T
Operons and SL2 trans-splicing exist in nematodes outside the
genus Caenorhabditis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
9751-9756 1997 ARTICLE
2875 Morrison M;Harris KS;Roth MB
smg mutants affect the expression of alternatively spliced SR
protein mRNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
9782-9785 1997 ARTICLE
2876 Hobert O;Mori I;Yamashita Y;Honda H;Ohshima Y;Liu Y;Ruvkun G
Regulation of interneuron function in the C. elegans
thermoregulatory pathway by the ttx-3 LIM homeobox gene.
Neuron 19: 345-357 1997 ARTICLE
2877 Schnabel R
Why does a nematode have an invariant cell lineage?
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 8: 341-349 1997
REVIEW
2878 Zipkin ID;Kindt RM;Kenyon CJ
Role of a new Rho family member in cell migration and axon
guidance in C. elegans.
Cell 90: 883-894 1997 ARTICLE
2879 Wolstenholme AJ
Glutamate-gated Cl- channels in Caenorhabditis elegans and
parasitic nematodes.
Biochemical Society Transactions 25: 830-834 1997
ARTICLE
2880 Jansen G;Hazendonk E;Thijssen KL;Plasterk RHA
Reverse genetics by chemical mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Nature Genetics 17: 119-121 1997 ARTICLE
2881 Plasterk RHA
The Tc1/Mariner transposon family.
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 204:
125-143 1997 REVIEW
2882 Peter ME;Medema JP;Krammer PH
Does the Caenorhabditis elegans protein CED-4 contain a region
of homology to the mammalian death effector domain?
Cell Death & Differentiation 4: 523-525 1997 ARTICLE
2883 Baldwin JG;Frisse LM;Vida JT;Eddleman CD;Thomas WK
An evolutionary framework for the study of developmental
evolution in a set of nematodes related to Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 8: 249-259 1997
ARTICLE
2884 Henderson ST;Gao D;Christensen S;Kimble J
Functional domains of LAG-2, a putative signaling ligand for
LIN-12 and GLP-1 receptors in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Molecular Biology of the Cell 8: 1751-1762 1997 ARTICLE
2885 Traunspurger W;Bergtold M;Goedkoop W
The effects of nematodes on bacterial activity and abundance in
a freshwater sediment.
Oecologia 112: 118-122 1997 ARTICLE
2886 Hoss S;Haitzer M;Traunspurger W;Gratzer H;Ahlf W;Steinberg C
Influence of particle size distribution and content of organic
matter on the toxicity of copper in sediment bioassays using
Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda).
Water, Air & Soil Pollution 99: 689-695 1997 ARTICLE
2887 Schlak I;Eizinger A;Sommer RJ
High rate of restriction fragment length polymorphisms between
two populations of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
(Diplogastridae).
Journal of Zoological Systematis & Evolutionary Research
35: 137-142 1997 ARTICLE
2888 Ottilie S;Wang Y;Banks S;Chang J;Vigna NJ;Weeks S;Armstrong
RC;Fritz LC;Oltersdorf T
Mutational analysis of the interacting cell death regulators
CED-9 and CED-4.
Cell Death & Differentiation 4: 526-533 1997 ARTICLE
2889 Carroll AS;Gilbert DE;Liu XY;Cheung JW;Michnowicz JE;Wagner
G;Ellenberger TE;Blackwell TK
SKN-1 domain folding and basic region monomer stabilization
upon DNA binding.
Genes & Development 11: 2227-2238 1997 ARTICLE
2890 Zdinak LA;Greenberg IB;Szewczyk NJ;Barmada SJ;Cardamone-Raynor
M;Hartman JJ;Jacobson LA
Transgene-coded chimeric proteins as reporters of intracellular
proteolysis: Starvation-induced catabolism of a lacZ fusion
protein in muscle cells of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 67: 143-153 1997
ARTICLE
2891 Desjardins P;Ledoux S
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system to study
neuronal cell death.
"Neuromethods". J Poiner (ed). Humana Press Inc. 29:
255-277 REVIEW
2892 Clark SG;Shurland D-L;Meyerowitz EM;Bargmann CI;Van der Bliek AM
A dynamin GTPase mutation causes a rapid and reversible
temperature-inducible locomotion defect in C. elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
10438-10443 1997 ARTICLE
2893 Sternberg PW;Felix MA
Evolution of cell lineage.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 7: 543-550 1997
REVIEW
2894 Eizinger A;Sommer RJ
The homeotic gene lin-39 and the evolution of nematode
epidermal cell fates.
Science 278: 452-455 1997 ARTICLE
2895 Hunt P
Wriggling into the next millennium. C. elegans II.
Trends in Genetics 13: 420 1997 REVIEW
2896 Olasode BJ
Dying by default, the biology of apoptosis: A review.
East African Medical Journal 74: 108-111 1997 REVIEW
2897 Padgett RW;Savage C;Das P
Genetic and biochemical analysis of TGF beta signal
transduction.
Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews 8: 1-9 1997 REVIEW
2898 De Stasio E;Lephoto C;Azuma L;Holst C;Stanislaus D;Uttam J
Characterization of revertants of unc-93(e1500) in
Caenorhabditis elegans induced by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea.
Genetics 147: 597-608 1997 ARTICLE
2899 Oka T;Yamamoto R;Futai M
Three vha genes encode proteolipids of Caenorhabditis elegans
vacuolar-type ATPase - Gene structures and preferential
expression in an H-shaped excretory cell and rectal cells.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 24387-24392 1997
ARTICLE
2900 Leroux MR;Melki R;Gordon B;Batelier G;Candido EPM
Structure-function studies on small heat shock protein
oligomeric assembly and interaction with unfolded polypeptides.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 24646-24656 1997
ARTICLE
2901 Janke DL;Schein JE;Ha T;Franz NW;O'Neil NJ;Vatcher GP;Stewart
HI;Kuervers LM;Baillie DL;Rose AM
Interpreting a sequenced genome: Toward a cosmid transgenic
library of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genome Research 7: 974-985 1997 ARTICLE
2902 Ketting RF;Fischer SEJ;Plasterk RHA
Target choice determinants of the Tc1 transposon of
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nucleic Acids Research 25: 4041-4047 1997 ARTICLE
2903 Rezsohazy R;van Luenen HGAM;Durbin RM;Plasterk RHA
Tc7, a Tc1-hitch hiking transposon in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nucleic Acids Research 25: 4048-4054 1997 ARTICLE
2904 Aspbury RA;Fisher MJ;Rees HH;Clegg RA
N-Myristoylation of the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent
protein kinase in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications 238:
523-527 1997 ARTICLE
2905 Baker JP;Titus MA
A family of unconventional myosins from the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Molecular Biology 272: 523-535 1997 ARTICLE
2906 Arata Y;Hirabayashi J;Kasai K
Structure of the 32 kDa galectin gene of the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 6669-6677 1997
ARTICLE
2907 Coissac E;Maillier E;Netter P
A comparative study of duplications in bacteria and eukaryotes:
The importance of telomeres.
Molecular Biology & Evolution 14: 1062-1074 1997 REVIEW
2908 Chinnaiyan AM;Chaudhary D;O'Rourke K;Koonin EV;Dixit VM
Role of CED-4 in the activation of CED-3.
Nature 388: 714-715 1997 REVIEW
2909 Hengartner MO
Apoptosis. CED-4 is a stranger no more.
Nature 388: 728-729 1997 REVIEW
2910 Roush W
Worm longevity gene cloned.
Science 277: 942-946 1997 REVIEW
2911 McIntire SL;Reimer RJ;Schuske K;Edwards RH;Jorgensen EM
Identification and characterization of the vesicular GABA
transporter.
Nature 389: 870-876 1997 ARTICLE
2912 Lee RYN;Lobel L;Hengartner M;Horvitz HR;Avery L
Mutations in the alpha1 subunit of an L-type voltage-activated
Ca2+ channel cause myotonia in Caenorhabditis elegans.
EMBO Journal 16: 6066-6076 1997 ARTICLE
2913 Baker JC;Harland RM
From receptor to nucleus: the Smad pathway.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 7: 467-473 1997
REVIEW
2914 Ogg S;Paradis S;Gottlieb S;Patterson GI;Lee L;Tissenbaum
HA;Ruvkun G
The Fork head transcription factor DAF-16 transduces
insulin-like metabolic and longevity signals in C. elegans.
Nature 389: 994-999 1997 ARTICLE
2915 Patterson GI;Koweek A;Wong A;Liu Y;Ruvkun G
The DAF-3 Smad protein antagonizes TGF-beta-related receptor
signaling in the Caenorhabditis elegans dauer pathway.
Genes & Development 11: 2679-2690 1997 ARTICLE
2916 Hajnal A;Whitfield CW;Kim SK
Inhibition of Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction by gap-1
and by let-23 receptor tyrosine kinase.
Genes & Development 11: 2715-2728 1997 ARTICLE
2917 Troemel ER;Kimmel BE;Bargmann CI
Reprogramming chemotaxis responses: Sensory neurons define
olfactory preferences in C. elegans.
Cell 91: 161-169 1997 ARTICLE
2918 Nonet ML;Staunton J;Kilgard MP;Fergestad T;Hartwieg E;Horvitz
HR;Jorgensen EM;Meyer BJ
C. elegans rab-3 mutant synapses exhibit impaired function and
are partially depleted of vesicles.
Journal of Neuroscience 17: 8061-8073 1997 ARTICLE
2919 van Pouderoyen G;Ketting RF;Perrakis A;Plasterk RHA;Sixma TK
Crystal structure of the specific DNA-binding domain of Tc3
transposase of C. elegans in complex with transposon DNA.
EMBO Journal 16: 6044-6054 1997 ARTICLE
2920 Dent JA;Davis MW;Avery L
avr-15 encodes a chloride channel subunit that mediates
inhibitory glutamatergic neurotransmission and ivermectin
sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
EMBO Journal 16: 5867-5879 1997 ARTICLE
2921 Sun AY;Lambie EJ
gon-2, a gene required for gonadogenesis in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Genetics 147: 1077-1089 1997 ARTICLE
2922 Bowerman B;Ingram MK;Hunter CP
The maternal par genes and the segregation of cell fate
specification activities in early Caenorhabditis elegans
embryos.
Development 124: 3815-3826 1997 ARTICLE
2923 Ahringer J
Maternal control of a zygotic patterning gene in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Development 124: 3865-3869 1997 ARTICLE
2924 Chamberlin HM;Palmer RE;Newman AP;Sternberg PW;Baillie DL;Thomas
JH
The PAX gene egl-38 mediates developmental patterning in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development 124: 3919-3928 1997 ARTICLE
2925 Okkema PG;Ha E;Haun C;Chen W;Fire A
The Caenorhabditis elegans NK-2 homeobox gene ceh-22 activates
pharyngeal muscle gene expression in combination with pha-1 and
is required for normal pharyngeal development.
Development 124: 3965-3973 1997 ARTICLE
2926 Selimi F;Mariani J;Martinou JC
Caenorhabditis elegans and mammalian neuronal death.
Revue Neurologique 153: 478-483 1997 REVIEW
2927 Otterson GA;Kaye FJ
A 'core ATPase', Hsp70-like structure is conserved in human,
rat, and C. elegans STCH proteins.
Gene 199: 287-292 1997 ARTICLE
2928 Leggett DS;Candido EPM
Biochemical characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans UBC-1:
self-association and auto-ubiquitination of a RAD6-like
ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in vitro.
Biochemical Journal 327: 357-361 1997 ARTICLE
2929 Cangelosi A;Parisi D
A neural network model of Caenorhabditis elegans: The circuit
of touch sensitivity.
Neural Proc 6: 91-98 1997 REVIEW
2930 Colbert HA;Smith TL;Bargmann CI
OSM-9, a novel protein with structural similarity to channels,
is required for olfaction, mechanosensation, and olfactory
adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Neuroscience 17: 8259-8269 1997 ARTICLE
2931 Zhang Y;Chou JH;Bradley J;Bargmann CI;Zinn K
The Caenorhabditis elegans seven-transmembrane protein ODR-10
functions as an odorant receptor in mammalian cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
2162-2167 1997 ARTICLE
2932 Li X;Greenwald I
HOP-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans presenilin, appears to be
functionally redundant with SEL-12 presenilin and to facilitate
LIN-12 and GLP-1 signaling.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
12204-12209 1997 ARTICLE
2933 Jan E;Yoon JW;Walterhouse D;Iannaccone P;Goodwin EB
Conservation of the C. elegans tra-2 3' UTR translational
control.
EMBO Journal 16: 6301-6313 1997 ARTICLE
2934 Baumeister R;Leimer U;Zweckbronner I;Jakubek C;Grunberg J;Haass C
Human presenilin-I, but not familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD)
mutants, facilitate Caenorhabditis elegans Notch signalling
independently of proteolytic processing.
Genes and Function 1: 149-159 1997 ARTICLE
2935 Lin K;Dorman JB;Rodan A;Kenyon C
daf-16: An HNF-3/forkhead family member that can function to
double the life-span of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Science 278: 1319-1322 1997 ARTICLE
2936 Hunter T;Bannister WH;Hunter GJ
Cloning, expression and characterization of two manganese
superoxide dismutases from Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 272: 28652-28659 1997
ARTICLE
2937 Burglin TR
Analysis of TALE superclass homeobox genes (MEIS, PBC, KNOX,
Iroquois, TGIF) reveals a novel domain conserved between plants
and animals.
Nucleic Acids Research 21: 4173-4180 1997 ARTICLE
2938 Bettinger JC;Euling S;Rougvie AE
The terminal differentiation factor LIN-29 is required for
proper vulval morphogenesis and egg laying in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Development 124: 4333-4342 1997 ARTICLE
2939 Zhu J;Hill RJ;Heid PJ;Fukuyama M;Sugimoto A;Priess JR;Rothman JH
end-1 encodes an apparent GATA factor that specifies the
endoderm precursor in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.
Genes & Development 11: 2883-2896 1997 ARTICLE
2940 Meneely PM
The chromosomal signal for sex determination in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
BioEssays 19: 945-948 1997 REVIEW
2941 Wittmann C;Bossinger O;Goldstein B;Fleischmann M;Kohler
R;Brunschwig K;Tobler H;Muller F
The expression of the C. elegans labial-like Hox gene ceh-13
during early embryogenesis relies on cell fate and on
anteroposterior cell polarity.
Development 124: 4193-4200 1997 ARTICLE
2942 Bowerman B
The worm keeps turning.
Nature 390: 228-229 1997 REVIEW
2943 Xue D;Horvitz HR
Caenorhabditis elegans CED-9 protein is a bifunctional
cell-death inhibitor.
Nature 390: 305-308 1997 ARTICLE
2944 Hitchcock DR;Black MC;Williams PL
Investigations into using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
for municipal and industrial wastewater toxicity testing.
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
33: 252-260 199 ARTICLE
2945 Laughton DL;Lunt GG;Wolstenholme AJ
Alternative splicing of a Caenorhabditis elegans gene produces
two novel inhibitory amino acid receptor subunits with
identical ligand binding domains but different ion channels.
Gene 201: 119-125 1997 ARTICLE
2946 Kaletta T;Schnabel H;Schnabel R
Binary specification of the embryonic lineage in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Nature 390: 294-298 1997 ARTICLE
2947 Silverman MA;Blaxter ML;Link CD
Biochemical analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans surface mutants.
Journal of Nematology 29: 296-305 1997 ARTICLE
2948 Kuwabara PE
Worming your way through the genome.
Trends in Genetics 13: 455-460 1997 REVIEW
2949 Zhang BL;Gallegos M;Puoti A;Durkin E;Fields S;Kimble J;Wickens MP
A conserved RNA-binding protein that regulates sexual fates in
the C. elegans hermaphrodite germ line.
Nature 390: 477-484 1997 ARTICLE
2950 Barnes TM;Hekimi S
The Caenorhabditis elegans avermectin resistance and anesthetic
response gene unc-9 encodes a member of a protein family
implicated in electrical coupling of excitable cells.
Journal of Neurochemistry 69: 2251-2260 1997 ARTICLE
2951 Keynes R;Cook GMW
Axons turn as netrins find their receptor.
Neuron 17: 1031-1034 1996 REVIEW
2952 Kemphues K;Mello C
Antisense RNA injection in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Trends in Cell Biology 7: 462 1997 REVIEW
2953 Burns RG
Identification of two new members of the tubulin family.
Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 31: 255-258 1995
REVIEW
2954 Tatara CP;Newman MC;McCloskey JT;Williams PL
Predicting relative metal toxicity with ion characteristics:
Caenorhabditis elegans LC50.
Aquatic Toxicology 39: 279-290 1997 ARTICLE
2955 Easton DM
Gompertz growth in number dead confirms medflies and nematodes
show excess oldster survival.
Experimental Gerontology 32: 719-726 1997 ARTICLE
2956 Harbinder S;Tavernarakis N;Herndon LA;Kinnell M;Xu SQ;Fire
A;Driscoll M
Genetically targeted cell disruption in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
3128-3133 1997 ARTICLE
2957 Page AP
Cyclophilin and protein disulfide isomerase genes are
co-transcribed in a functionally related manner in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
DNA and Cell Biology 16: 1335-1343 1997 ARTICLE
2958 Mitenko NL;Eisner JR;Swiston JR:Mains PE
A limited number of Caenorhabditis elegans genes are readily
mutable to dominant, temperature-sensitive maternal-effect
embryonic lethality.
Genetics 147: 1665-1674 1997 ARTICLE
2959 Tax FE;Thomas JH;Ferguson EL;Horvitz HR
Identification and characterization of genes that interact with
lin-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 147: 1675-1695 1997 ARTICLE
2960 Beck CDO;Rankin CH
Long-term habituation is produced by distributed training at
long isis and not by massed training or short isis in
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Animal Learning & Behavior 25: 446-457 1997 ARTICLE
2961 Wade N
A worm and a computer help illuminate diabetes.
The New York Times, December 30: B13-B14 1997 REVIEW
2962 Peter ME;Heufelder AE;Hengartner MO
Advances in apoptosis research.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
12736-12737 1997 REVIEW
2963 Kim SK
Polarized signaling - Basolateral receptor localization in
epithelial cells by PDZ-containing proteins.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology 9: 853-859 1997 REVIEW
2964 Wen C;Metzstein MM;Greenwald I
SUP-17, a Caenorhabditis elegans ADAM protein related to
Drosophila KUZBANIAN, and its role in LIN-12/NOTCH signalling.
Development 124: 4759-4767 1997 ARTICLE
2965 Rose KL;Winfrey VP;Hoffman LH;Hall DH;Furuta T;Greenstein D
The POU gene ceh-18 promotes gonadal sheath cell
differentiation and function required for meiotic maturation
and ovulation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Developmental Biology 192: 59-77 1997 ARTICLE
2966 Hubbard EJA;Wu G;Kitajewski J;Greenwald I
sel-10, a negative regulator of lin-12 activity in
Caenorhabditis elegans, encodes a member of the CDC4 family of
proteins.
Genes & Development 11: 3182-3193 1997 ARTICLE
2967 Mori I;Ohshima Y
Molecular neurogenetics of chemotaxis and thermotaxis in the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
BioEssays 19: 1055-1064 1997 REVIEW
2968 Takagi S;Benard C;Pak J;Livingstone D;Hekimi S
Cellular and axonal migrations are misguided along both body
axes in the maternal-effect mau-2 mutants of Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Development 124: 5115-5126 1997 ARTICLE
2969 Sonnhammer EL;Durbin R
Analysis of protein domain families in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genomics 46: 200-216 1997 ARTICLE
2970 Slack F;Ruvkun G
Temporal pattern formation by heterochronic genes.
Annual Review of Genetics 31: 611-634 1997 REVIEW
2971 Wood WB
Left-right asymmetry in animal development.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 13: 53-82
1997 REVIEW
2972 Kimble J;Simpson P
The LIN-12/Notch signaling pathway and its regulation.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 13:
333-361 1997 REVIEW
2973 Cooper JA;Hayman W;Reed C;Kagawa H;Good MF;Saul A
Mapping of conformational B cell epitopes within alpha-helical
coiled coil proteins.
Molecular Immunology 34: 433-440 1997 ARTICLE
2974 Cadigan KM;Nusse R
Wnt signaling: a common theme in animal development.
Genes & Development 11: 3286-3305 1997 REVIEW
2975 Hekimi S;Lakowski B;Barnes TM;Ewbank JJ
Molecular Genetics of life span in C. elegans: how much does it
teach us?
Trends in Genetics 14: 14-20 1998 REVIEW
2976 Marra MA;Hillier L;Waterston RH
Expressed sequence tags - ESTablishing bridges between genomes.
Trends in Genetics 14: 4-7 1998 REVIEW
2977 Che SL;Weil MM;Etkin LD;Epstein HF;Kuang J
Molecular cloning of a splice variant of Caenorhabditis elegans
YNK1, a putative element in signal transduction.
Biochemicia et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and
Expression 1354: 231-240 1997 ARTICLE
2978 Forrester WC;Perens E;Zallen JA;Garriga G
Identification of Caenorhabditis elegans genes required for
neuronal differentiation and migration.
Genetics 148:151-165 1998 ARTICLE
2979 Garvin C;Holdeman R;Strome S
The phenotype of mes-2, mes-3, mes-4 and mes-6, maternal-effect
genes required for survival of the germline in Caenorhabditis
elegans, is sensitive to chromosome dosage.
Genetics 148: 167-185 1998 ARTICLE
2980 Collet J;Spike CA;Lundquist EA;Shaw JE;Herman RK
Analysis of osm-6, a gene that affects sensory cilium structure
and sensory neuron function in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 148: 187-200 1998 ARTICLE