Sex change by gene conversion in a Caenorhabditis elegans fog-2 mutant

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 669-672

  Katju, Vaishali ^a   LaBeau, Elisa M ^a   Lipinski, Kendra J ^a   Bergthorsson, Ulfar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CONVERSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 56049100499     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.090035     Document Type: Article

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