Rapid coevolution of the nematode sex-determining genes fem-3 and tra-2

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2035-2041

  Haag, Eric S ^a,b   Wang, Shanping ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; DROSOPHILA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FEM 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; FEM-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRA2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036898532     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01333-7     Document Type: Article

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