Cryptic intraspecific variation in sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans revealed by mutations

Heredity

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 473-482

  Chandler, C H ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

development; microevolution; QTL; quantitative trait locus; Tra 2

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; NEMATODE; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77958482170     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2010.62     Document Type: Article

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