Genetic and molecular characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans gene, mel-26, a postmeiotic negative regulator of MEI-1, a meiotic-specific spindle component

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 119-128

  Dow, M Rhys ^a   Mains, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, RECESSIVE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031717483     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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