spe-12 encodes a sperm cell surface protein that promotes spermiogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 209-220

  Nance, Jeremy ^a   Minniti, Alicia N ^a   Sadler, Cathryn ^a   Ward, Samuel ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPE 12; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032955649     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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