For male Caenorhabditis elegans, sperm activation is a "Just-in-time" event

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Shakes, Diane C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; SWM 1 PROTEIN; TRY 5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; EDITORIAL; FERTILITY; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM; SPERM ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SERINE PROTEASES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 81755163132     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002392     Document Type: Editorial

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