Evolution of sex determination in Caenorhabditis: Unusually high divergence of tra-1 and its functional consequences

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 587-595

  De Bono, Mario ^a   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; TURNER SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0029791140     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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