Functional genomic identification of genes required for male gonadal differentiation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 523-535

  Kalis, Andrea K ^a   Kroetz, Mary B ^b   Larson, Kathleen M ^b   Zarkower, David ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CYTOKINESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENDER AND SEX; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; GENES; GENOME; GONADS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 77955487540     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.116038     Document Type: Article

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