dmd-3, a doublesex-related gene regulated by tra-1, governs sex-specific morphogenesis in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2373-2382

  Mason, D Adam ^a   Rabinowitz, Jeremy S ^b   Portman, Douglas S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fusion; Developmental timing; DM domain; DMRT; Selector gene; Sex determination; Sex differences; Sexual differentiation; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLESEX PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL FUSION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 50249188292     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.017046     Document Type: Article

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