Molecular basis of the copulatory plug polymorphism in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7207, 2008, Pages 1019-1022

  Palopoli, Michael F ^a   Rockman, Matthew V ^b   TinMaung, Aye ^a   Ramsay, Camden ^a   Curwen, Stephen ^a   Aduna, Andrea ^a   Laurita, Jason ^a   Kruglyak, Leonid ^b  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; HERMAPHRODITE; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; NEMATODE; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COPULATION; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HERMAPHRODITISM; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; COPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MUCINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 50049085799     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07171     Document Type: Article

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