A sperm-supplied factor required for embryogenesis in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 391-404

  Browning, Heidi ^a,b   Strome, Susan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Embryogenesis; spe 11; Sperm supplied factor

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, LETHAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030025958     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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