Asymmetric spermatocyte division as a mechanism for controlling sex ratios

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Shakes, Diane C ^a   Neva, Bryan J ^a   Huynh, Henry ^b   Chaudhuri, Jyotiska ^b   Pires Dasilva, Andre ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HETERORHABDITIS; MALE; MATING; MEIOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; X CHROMOSOME;

METAZOA; RHABDITIS;

EID: 78751632476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1160     Document Type: Article

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