Article
spe-29 encodes a small predicted membrane protein required for the initiation of sperm activation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2000
Nance J, Davis E B, Ward S
Abstract excerpt
Caenorhabditis elegans spermatids complete a dramatic morphogenesis to crawling spermatozoa in the absence of an actin- or tubulin-based cytoskeleton and without synthesizing new gene products. Mutations in three genes (spe-8, spe-12, and spe-27) prevent the initiation of this morphogenesis, term...
Topics
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cell Differentiation
- DNA, Helminth
- Disorders of Sex Development
- Female
- Fertility
- Genes, Helminth
- Helminth Proteins
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
- Morphogenesis
- Phenotype
- Reproduction
- Signal Transduction
- Spermatids
- Spermatozoa