Reduction in ovulation or male sex phenotype increases long-term anoxia survival in a daf-16-independent manner in Caenorhabditis elegans

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-178

  Mendenhall, Alexander R ^a   LeBlanc, Michelle G ^a   Mohan, Desh P ^a   Padilla, Pamela A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Germ line; Insulin like signaling; Oxygen deprivation; Stress

Indexed keywords

FLOXURIDINE; GENE PRODUCT; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYPOTHESIS; INSULIN LIKE ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLOXURIDINE; MALE; MUTATION; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 60549095939     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.90278.2008     Document Type: Article

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