Independent recruitments of a translational regulator in the evolution of self-fertile nematodes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19672-19677

  Beadell, Alana V ^a,b,c   Liu, Qinwen ^a   Johnson, Dorothy M ^a,d   Haag, Eric S ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding systems; Germ cells; Mutant; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLD 1; PROTEIN TRA 2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 83755183256     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108068108     Document Type: Article

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