mag-1, a homolog of Drosophila mago nashi, regulates hermaphrodite germ- line sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans

Developmental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 172-182

  Li, Weiqing ^a   Boswell, Robert ^a   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic elongation; Oogenesis; Posterior group genes; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAGO;

EID: 0034652033     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9593     Document Type: Article

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