Genetic and molecular analysis of fox-1, a numerator element involved in Caenorhabditis elegans primary sex determination

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 617-631

  Skipper, Magdalena ^a   Milne, Catherine A ^a   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032933509     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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