Sex-specific control of sex-lethal is a conserved mechanism for sex determination in the genus Drosophila

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 971-982

  Bopp, Daniel ^a,b   Calhoun, Gretchen ^a   Horabin, Jamila I ^a,c   Samuels, Mark ^a   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

D. virilis; RNA processing; Sex determination; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEX DETERMINATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 0029670109     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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