A negative feedback mechanism revealed by functional analysis of the alternative isoforms of the Drosophila splicing regulator transformer-2

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 303-314

  Mattox, William ^a   McGuffin, M Elaine ^a   Baker, Bruce S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GERM LINE; INTRON; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TARGET CELL; ADULT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN CELL; INTRON RETENTION; MALE; SYNTHESIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA PROBES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0029912882     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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