Homologs of the Caenorhabditis elegans masculinizing gene her-1 in C. briggsae and the filarial parasite Brugia malayi

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1573-1584

  Streit, Adrian ^a,d   Li, Weiqing ^a   Robertson, Barbara ^a   Schein, Jacquie ^b   Kamal, Ibrahim H ^c,e   Marra, Marco ^b   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SYNTENY; VIRILIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345713157     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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