Sex determination in the social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6010, 2010, Pages 1533-1536

  Bloomfield, Gareth ^a,b   Skelton, Jason ^b   Ivens, Alasdair ^b   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a,c   Kay, Robert R ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; MATING BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SEX DETERMINATION;

ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC LOCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 78650148213     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197423     Document Type: Article

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