A novel regulatory mutation in the C. elegans sex determination gene tra-2 defines a candidate ligand/receptor interaction site

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2089-2098

  Kuwabara, Patricia E ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Hermaphrodite; Ligand; Receptor; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; KARYOTYPE 45,X; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; LIGANDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030037695     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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