SpringerProtocols: Abstract: Wnt Signaling During Caenorhabditis elegans Embryonic Development

9. Wnt Signaling During Caenorhabditis elegans Embryonic Development

By: Daniel J. Marston³, Minna Roh³, Amanda J. Mikels⁴, Roel Nusse⁴, Bob Goldstein³

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Wnt signaling has been demonstrated to regulate diverse cell processes throughout the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. This chapter describes methods that have been used to investigate some of these Wnt-dependent processes: endoderm specification, mitotic spindle orientation, and cell migration.

Affiliation(s): (3) Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
(4) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Beckman Center, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA

Book Title: Wnt Signaling

Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 469 | Pub. Date: Jul-01-2008 | Page Range: 103-111 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-469-9

Subject: Cell Biology

Key Words: C. elegans - Wnt signaling - embryonic development

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