Sex in the worm - Counting and compensating X-chromosome dose

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 247-253

  Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SWITCHING; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WORM; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; SEX; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034195219     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02004-7     Document Type: Review

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