A role for sperm in regulation of egg-laying in the Nematode C. elegans

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McGovern, Marie ^a,c   Yu, Ling ^a   Kosinski, Mary ^b   Greenstein, David ^b   Savage Dunn, Cathy ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MATING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; UTERUS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MAJOR SPERM PROTEIN, NEMATODE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTATION; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34248352286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-7-41     Document Type: Article

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