Germ-line regulation of the Caenorhabditis elegans sex-determining gene tra-2

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 251-262

  Kuwabara, Patricia E ^a   Okkema, Peter G ^b   Kimble, Judith ^c  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Evolution; Germ line; Hermaphrodite; Sex determination; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032387735     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9062     Document Type: Article

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