Sex Differences in Carbohydrate Metabolism Are Linked to Gene Expression in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Miersch, Claudia ^a   Döring, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; LECTIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; LARVAL STAGE; LECTIN GENE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MALE; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; RNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; TREHALOSE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84866274983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044748     Document Type: Article

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