4 Developmental Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans Sex Determination

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 41, Issue C, 1998, Pages 99-132

  Kuwabara, Patricia E ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032888795     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(08)60271-9     Document Type: Article

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