Genetic and molecular analysis of spe-27, a gene required for spermiogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 213-223

  Minniti, Alicia N ^a   Sadler, Cathryn ^a,c   Ward, Samuel ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MACROMOLECULE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; RNA SPLICING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, HELMINTH; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; INTRONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0029868912     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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