The nuclear hormone receptor sex-1 is an X-chromosome signal that determines nematode sex

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6707, 1998, Pages 168-173

  Carmi, Ilil ^a   Kopczynski, Jennifer B ^a,b   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032511983     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24164     Document Type: Article

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