Genetics of sex determination in the social amoebae

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 608-616

  Bloomfield, Gareth ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Cannibalism; Cysts; Sex; Sex determination (genetics)

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); CELL STRUCTURE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE LOCUS; MACROCYST; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; ZYGOTE;

DICTYOSTELIUM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

AMOEBOZOA; DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79956159789     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01255.x     Document Type: Review

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