Many of these ligand-modulated transcription factors have specific endogenous ligands and act as ligand sensors that regulate gene expression during development, cellular differentiation, reproduction, and lipid homeostasis.
Research topics include the study of plant structure, growth and differentiation, reproduction, biochemistry and primary metabolism, chemical products, development, diseases, evolutionary relationships, systematics, and plant taxonomy.
PTEN is involved in cellular differentiation, reproduction and apoptosis, as well as cellular adhesion and mobility.
BR deficient plants display dwarfism and multiple defects in cell elongation, cell division, cell differentiation, reproduction and senescence, and light control of development [ 3].
The genetic information obtained from this EST initiative will be of enormous value for identifying and determining the functions of genes involved in a number of important biological processes, including sex determination, sex differentiation, reproduction, courtship behavior, and olfaction.
In addition, cell differentiation, reproduction, and growth were also among the most highly represented groups within the biological process category, consistent with the fact that the majority of radish ESTs were derived from whole seedlings, buds and anthers.
According to the so-called κ-rule, an individual spends a fixed fraction κ of the available energy on somatic processes (growth and maintenance), whereas it spends the remainder fraction on reproductive processes (development, maintaining the degree of differentiation, and reproduction).
They had no sexual differentiation and reproduction took place by a process called budding.
Thus, signal transduction is a crucial aspect of an organism's growth, development, differentiation, and reproduction.
Since many of the environmental EDCs interfere with the sex steroid system of vertebrates, most EDC studies with zebrafish addressed disruption of sexual differentiation and reproduction.
Functional annotations by the Gene Ontology (GO) comparing with the eukaryotic clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (KOG) indicate that the L3-biased clusters significantly related to metabolism and the L5-biased clusters to growth, development, sexual differentiation and reproduction.
