Endoderm specification in Caenorhabditis elegans

ID: endoderm-specification-in-caenorhabditis-elegans

The E blastomere produces the intestinal lineage. Maternal SKN-1 and the P2-to-EMS inductive interaction converge on an endoderm gene regulatory network with parallel inputs and partly redundant GATA transcription factors. Loss of one late marker does not establish loss of the lineage.[ref]

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