Sex determination in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-69

  Zanetti, Simone ^a   Puoti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Gametogenesis; Germ cells; RNA processing; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FBF 1; PROTEIN FBF 2; PROTEIN TRA 1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SEX LETHAL PROTEIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA 1 GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEM 3 GENE; FOG 2 GENE; FOG 3 GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SWITCHING; GERM LINE; GLD 1 GENE; HER 1 GENE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOG GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; SDC GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX LETHAL GENE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRA 1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; XO LETHAL 1 GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84867517508     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_3     Document Type: Article

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