A forkhead protein controls sexual identity of the C. elegans male somatic gonad

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1425-1436

  Chang, Weiru ^a,b   Tilmann, Christopher ^c   Thoemke, Kara ^a,b   Markussen, Finn Hugo ^c   Mathies, Laura D ^c,d   Kimble, Judith ^c   Zarkower, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Forkhead; Gonad; Gonadogenesis; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UTERUS; VULVA; WILD TYPE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GONADS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 1842611568     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01012     Document Type: Review

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