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fog-2 and the evolution of self-fertile hermaphroditism in Caenorhabditis.
PLoS biology - 1 Jan 2005
Nayak Sudhir, Goree Johnathan, Schedl Tim
Abstract excerpt
Somatic and germline sex determination pathways have diverged significantly in animals, making comparisons between taxa difficult. To overcome this difficulty, we compared the genes in the germline sex determination pathways of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae, two Caenorhabditis species with similar reproductive systems and sequenced genomes. We demonstrate that C. briggsae has orthologs of all known C....
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