Genetic control of sex determination in the germ line of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetic control of sex determination in the germ line of Caenorhabditis elegans.
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秀丽隐杆线虫种系性别决定的遗传控制。
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10.1098/rstb.1988.0110
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1988
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Kimble,J
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Kimble,J
The nematodeCaenorhabditis elegansnormally exists as one of two sexes: self-fertilizing hermaphrodite or male. Development as hermaphrodite or male requires the differentiation of each tissue in a sex-specific way. In this review, I discuss the genetic control of sex determination in a single tissue ofC. elegans: the germ line. Sex determination in the germ line depends on the action of two types of genes: - those that act globally in all tissues to direct male or female development and those that act only in the germ line to specify either spermatogenesis or oogenesis. First, I consider a tissue-specific sex-determining gene,fog-1, which promotes spermatogenesis in the germ line. Second, I consider the regulation of the hermaphrodite pattern of germ line gametogenesis where first sperm and then oocytes are produced.