Evolutionary conservation of regulatory strategies for the sex determination factor transformer-2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2908-2919

  Chandler, Dawn ^a   McGuffin, M Elaine ^a   Piskur, Jure ^b,d   Yao, Jun ^a   Baker, Bruce S ^b   Mattox, William ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030949838     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.5.2908     Document Type: Article

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