Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: Multicellular organisms clearly require mechanisms for intercellular communication and, perhaps even more basically, for intercellular cohesion. The most primitive sponges and coelenterates depend on cell adhesion for their organismal organization; so do insects, nematodes and vertebrates. What molecules and mechanisms are common among these different phyla and which ones differ and why? The availability of the euchromatic genomic sequences of Drosophila melanogaster (Adams et al., 2000; Rubin et al., 2000;
Source: The Journal of Cell Biology
Authors: Richard O. Hynes, Qi Zhao
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology and Allergy
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1968316337