Developmental alterations of the C. elegans male anal depressor morphology and function require sex-specific cell autonomous and cell non-autonomous interactions

Developmental Biology

Volumn 398, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-43

  Chen, Xin ^a   García, L René ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal depressor; Cell movement; Feminization; Muscle development; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANAL DEPRESSOR MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CYTOSKELETON; DEFECATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DYNAMICS; FEMINIZATION; FILOPODIUM; HERMAPHRODITE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LASER SURGERY; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; SARCOMERE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENICS; ANAL CANAL; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; EMBRYOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DEFECATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MUSCLES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84922554191     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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