Article
Interspecies comparison reveals evolution of control regions in the nematode sex-determining gene tra-2.
Genetics - 1 Oct 1996
Kuwabara P E
Abstract excerpt
The Caenorhabditis elegans sex-determining gene tra-2 promotes female development and expresses 4.7-, 1.9- and 1.8-kb mRNAs. The 4.7-kb mRNA encodes the major feminizing activity of the locus, a predicted membrane receptor that mediates cell-to-cell communication, named TRA-2A. The tra-2 gene was...
Topics
- Alternative Splicing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA, Helminth
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Helminth Proteins
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- RNA
- RNA, Antisense
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid