The tra-1 gene determines sexual phenotype cell-autonomously in C. elegans.

doi:10.1016/0092-8674(90)90415-b

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The tra-1 gene determines sexual phenotype cell-autonomously in C. elegans.

Cell - 21 Dec 1990

Hunter C P, Wood W B

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The tra-1 gene plays a central role in C. elegans sex determination. XX animals develop as hermaphrodites when tra-1 is active and as males when it is not. By analyzing a large number of tra-1 genetic mosaics we have shown that, with the expected exception of vulval induction by the hermaphrodite...

Topics

Animals
Caenorhabditis
Clone Cells
Disorders of Sex Development
Female
Genes
Intestinal Mucosa
Male
Models, Genetic
Mosaicism
Phenotype
RNA, Messenger
Sex Determination Analysis
Vitellogenins

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