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Nematode Vulva References
These references are to a number of papers, ranging from classical genetic analysis to molecular biological work which describe the development of the C. elegans vulva and its genetic control.
For a basic introduction to C. elegans see the book by W.B. Wood (1988) "The nematode C. elegans", Cold Spring Harbor Press, USA, and for the first description of the cellular development of the vulva see J. Sulston and H.R. Horvitz (1977) "Postembryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans" Develpmental Biology 56: 110-156.
A recent excellent review is Kornfeld, K. (1997). Vulval development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Trends in Genetics 13, 55-61.see also Gilbert, S. F. (1994). C. elegans vulval development. In "Developmental Biology", pp. 679, 681-682. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
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*Aroian, R. V., Koga, M., Mendel, J. E., Ohshima, Y. & Sternberg, P. W. 1990 The let-23 gene necessary for Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction encodes a tyrosine kinase of the EGF receptor family. Nature 348, 693-699.
*Beitel, G. J., Clark, S. G. & Horvitz, H. R. 1990 Caenorhabditis elegans ras gene let-60 acts as a switch in the pathway of vulval induction. Nature 348, 503-509.
***Ferguson, E. L., Sternberg, P. W. & Horvitz, H. R. 1987 A genetic pathway for the specification of the vulval cell lineages of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 326, 259-267.
***Horvitz, H. R. & Sternberg, P. W. 1991 Multiple intercellular signalling systems control the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans vulva. Nature 351, 535-541.
***Kenyon, C. 1995 A perfect vulva every time: Gradients and signalling cascades in C. elegans. Cell 82, 171-174.
*Kenyon, C. & Kamb, A. 1989 Cellular dialogs during development. Cell 58, 607-608.
**Simske, J. S. & Kim, S. K. 1995 Sequential signalling during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction. Nature 375, 142-146.
****Sternberg, P. W. 1993 Intercellular signalling and signal transduction in C. elegans. Annual Review of Genetics 27, 497-521.
**Sternberg, P. W. & Horvitz, H. R. 1989 The combined action of two intercellular signalling pathways specifies three cell fates during vulval induction in C. elegans. Cell 58, 679-693.
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