Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1159-1178

  Farboud, Behnom ^a   Nix, Paola ^a,b   Jow, Margaret M ^a,c   Gladden, John M ^a,d   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Dose sensitive signals; Haploinsufficiency; Nuclear hormone receptor; Sex determination; T box protein

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

DOSAGE COMPENSATION; DOSE-SENSITIVE SIGNALS; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR; SEX DETERMINATION; T-BOX PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GLUTAMINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84877950593     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.217026.113     Document Type: Article

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