SDC-3 coordinates the assembly of a dosage compensation complex on the nematode X chromosome

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1019-1031

  Davis, Tamara L ^a   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Dosage compensation; Protein complex; Sex determination; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0030934488     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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