Table 2.

Slug Genes

Gene	Product	Period of mRNA increase	Reference
ecmA	ST430	12 - 22 hr	Ceccarelli et al., 1987
ecmB	ST310	12 - 24 hr	Ceccarelli et al., 1987
ecmC	sheathin C	12 - 20 hr	Ti et al., 1995
ecmD	sheathin D	12 - 16 hr	Ti et al., 1995
dcsA	cellulose synthetase	4 - 20 hr	Blanton et al., 2000
mhcA	myosin heavy chain	0 - 4 hr	Knecht and Loomis, 1987
mlcR	myosin light chain	0 - 4 hr	Chen et al., 1994 (X)
pkgB	protein kinase B	0 - 8 hr	Meili et al., 2000
limB	cytoskeletal protein	0 - 8 hr	Chien et al., 2000
tipD	atg16 related - ubiquitin-like conjugator	0 - 8 hr	Stege et al., 1999
atgl	autophagy protein kinase	0 - 4 hr	Otto et al., 2004
atg5	ubiquitin-like conjugator	0 - 8 hr	Otto et al., 2003
atg6	PI3K complex component	0 - 8 hr	Otto et al., 2004
atg7	autophagy El-like	0 - 8 hr	Otto et al., 2003
atg8	ubiquitin-like autophagy protein	0 - 8 hr	Otto et al., 2003
atg9	transmembrane autophagy protein	0 - 20 hr	Calvo-Garrido et al., 2010
vmp1	vacuolar membrane protein	4 - 20 hr	Calvo-Garrido et al., 2010
tipA	protein phosphatase-like	0 - 4 hr	Stege et al., 1997
tipB	unknown 41 kDa	4 - 8 hr	Stege et al., 1999
ubcB	ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2	0 - 4 hr	Clark et al., 1997
mkkA	MEK kinase/ F box	0 - 4 hr	Chung et al., 1998
fbxA	F box/ WD40	4 - 16 hr	Nelson et al., 2000
amdA	adenosine monophosphate deaminase	0 - 16 hr	Chae et al., 2001
chdC	DNA binding domain	0 - 4 hr	Platt et al., 2013