Sex and X-chromosome-wide repression in Caenorhabditis elegans

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2004, Pages 71-79

  Meyer, B J ^a   McDonel, P ^a   Csankovszki, G ^a   Ralston, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENE PRODUCT; HISTONE; CONDENSIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; X CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENETIC REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 23044490366     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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