The Caenorhabditis elegans PcG-like gene sop-2 regulates the temporal and sexual specificities of cell fates

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1445-1456

  Cai, Qingchun ^a,b   Sun, Yinyan ^b   Huang, Xinxin ^b   Guo, Cong ^b   Zhang, Yuxia ^b   Zhu, Zuoyan ^a   Zhang, Hong ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIN 29 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LIN-29 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SOP 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SOP-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SOP 2 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 45149084827     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.086678     Document Type: Article

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