Two Very Long Chain Fatty Acid Acyl-CoA Synthetase Genes, acs-20 and acs-22, Have Roles in the Cuticle Surface Barrier in Caenorhabditis elegans

• Eriko Kage-Nakadai,

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Kobuna,

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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• Masako Kimura,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keiko Gengyo-Ando,

  Current address: Saitama University Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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• Takao Inoue,

  Affiliations Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Arai,

  Affiliations Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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• Shohei Mitani

  * E-mail: mitani1@research.twmu.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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