Evidence for multiple promoter elements orchestrating male-specific regulation of the her-1 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 237-248

  Li, Weiqing ^a   Streit, Adrian ^a,b   Robertson, Barbara ^a   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; INTRON; LETHAL MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, LETHAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TAIL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032900948     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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