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ReviewGenesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)2016

Combinatorial decoding of the invariant C. elegans embryonic lineage in space and time.

Amanda L Zacharias, John Isaac Murray

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Review in Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Amanda L ZachariasDepartment of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
John Isaac MurrayDepartment of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding

Mechanisms integrating lineage history with fate specification in C. elegansR01GM105676 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MURRAY, JOHN ISAAC · 2013 to 2017
$1.5M
Mechanisms governing context-dependent Wnt activity in C. elegans embryogenesisR00GM111825 · NIGMS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI ZACHARIAS, AMANDA LUCILLE · 2018 to 2020
$747k
Mechanisms governing context-dependent Wnt activity in C. elegans embryogenesisK99GM111825 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ZACHARIAS, AMANDA LUCILLE · 2014 to 2015
$146k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM105676NIGMS NIH HHS GM111825NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM111825NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM111825NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105676
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how a single cell, the zygote, can divide and differentiate to produce the diverse animal cell types is a central goal of developmental biology research. The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans provides a system that enables a truly comprehensive understanding of this process across all cells. Its invariant cell lineage makes it possible to identify all of the cells in each individual and compare them across organisms. Recently developed methods automate the process of cell identification, allowing high-throughput gene expression characterization and phenotyping at single cell resolution. In this Review, we summarize the sequences of events that pattern the lineage including establishment of founder cell identity, the signaling pathways that diversify embryonic fate, and the regulators involved in patterning within these founder lineages before cells adopt their terminal fates. We focus on insights that have emerged from automated approaches to lineage tracking, including insights into mechanisms of robustness, context-specific regulation of gene expression, and temporal coordination of differentiation. We suggest a model by which lineage history produces a combinatorial code of transcription factors that act, often redundantly, to ensure terminal fate.

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Cell LineageAnimalsBody PatterningCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCell DifferentiationGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalModels, BiologicalPhenotypeSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsTranscription Factorscell differentiationquantitative microscopyrobustnesssignal transductiontranscription factors

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PMID26915329
PMCPMC4840027

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