The Caenorhabditis elegans sex determination gene mog-1 encodes a member of the DEAH-box protein family

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2189-2197

  Puoti, Alessandro ^a,b   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GERM LINE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033019053     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.3.2189     Document Type: Article

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