Turning clustering loops: Sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages R111-R120

  Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^a   Ellis, Ronald E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; TRA 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRA-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XOL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; XOL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; METABOLISM; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GERM CELLS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0037022244     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00675-9     Document Type: Article

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