Anucleate Caenorhabditis elegans sperm can crawl, fertilize oocytes and direct anterior-posterior polarization of the I-cell embryo

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 355-366

  Sadler, Penny L ^a,b   Shakes, Diane C ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis specification; Caenorhabditis elegans; Centrosome; Egg activation; Emb 27; Emb 30; Fertilization; Paternal effect; Sperm pronucleus; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033970463     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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