Regulatory elements required for development of Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites are conserved in the tra-2 homologue of C. remanei, a male/female sister species

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-116

  Haag, Eric S ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MATING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034013790     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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