Evolutionary Change within a Bipotential Switch Shaped the Sperm/Oocyte Decision in Hermaphroditic Nematodes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Guo, Yiqing ^a   Chen, Xiangmei ^a   Ellis, Ronald E ^a  

^a UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TIP60 PROTEIN; TRA1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRR1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CBR FEM GENE; CBR FOG 3 GENE; CBR TRA 1 GENE; CBR TRA 2 GENE; CBR TRR 1 GENE; CEL TRR 1 GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84887280141     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003850     Document Type: Article

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