Interspecies comparison reveals evolution of control regions in the nematode sex-determining gene tra-2

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 597-607

  Kuwabara, Patricia E ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0029833214     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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