The mog-1 gene is required for the switch from spermatogenesis to oogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1093/genetics/133.4.919

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The mog-1 gene is required for the switch from spermatogenesis to oogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Genetics - 1 Apr 1993

Graham P L, Kimble J

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Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites make first sperm, then oocytes. By contrast, animals homozygous for any of six loss-of-function mutations in the gene mog-1 (for masculinization of the germ line) make sperm continuously and do not switch into oogenesis. Therefore, in mog-1 mutants, germ cell...

Topics

Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans
Chromosome Mapping
Female
Genes, Helminth
Male
Mutation
Oogenesis
Phenotype
RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
RNA, Messenger
Sex Determination Analysis
Spermatogenesis
Zygote

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