GLD-3, a bicaudal-C homolog that inhibits FBF to control germline sex determination in C. elegans

Developmental Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 697-710

  Eckmann, Christian R ^a   Kraemer, Brian ^a   Wickens, Marvin ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FBF; PROTEIN GLD 3; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EMBRYO; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A; VERMES;

EID: 0036848046     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00322-2     Document Type: Article

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