Key aspects of the primary sex determination mechanism are conserved across the genus Drosophila

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3259-3268

  Erickson, James W ^a,b   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

D. melanogaster; D. pseudoobscura; D. virilis; Pole cells; Sciara; Sex determination; sisA; Sxl; X A ratio; Yolk nuclei

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; SCIARA;

EID: 0031708975     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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