The remarkable ubiquity of DM domain factors as regulators of sexual phenotype: Ancestry or aptitude?

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 2322-2326

  Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, INSECT; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037106233     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1025502     Document Type: Review

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