Dependence of the sperm/oocyte decision on the nucleosome remodeling factor complex was acquired during recent caenorhabditis briggsae evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2573-2585

  Chen, Xiangmei ^a,b   Shen, Yongquan ^a   Ellis, Ronald E ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis briggsae; chromatin remodelers; evolution; NURF complex

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOSOME REMODELING FACTOR COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TRA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS NIGONI; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOG 1 GENE; FOG 3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84929659433     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu198     Document Type: Article

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