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Enigma variations: control of sexual fate in nematode germ cells
Department of Molecular Biology, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, B303 Science Center, 2 Medical Center Drive, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Genome Biology 2006, 7:227 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-227
Published: 28 July 2006Abstract
A new study showing that neither FEM-2 nor FEM-3 is required for spermatogenesis in Caenorhabditis briggsae, unlike in Caenorhabditis elegans, implies that the sex-determination pathway in these species is evolving rapidly, and supports the proposal that they evolved hermaphroditism independently.
