Formation of the male-specific muscle in female Drosophila by ectopic fruitless expression

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 500-506

  Usui Aoki, Kazue ^a,b   Ito, Hiroki ^b   Ui Tei, Kumiko ^c   Takahashi, Kuniaki ^a,b   Lukacsovich, Tamas ^a,b   Awano, Wakae ^b   Nakata, Hiromi ^b   Piao, Zheng Fu ^c   Nilsson, Eric E ^b   Tomida, Jun Ya ^a,d   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^a,b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PUPA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0001695388     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35019537     Document Type: Article

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