Modulation of MSL1 abundance in female drosophila contributes to the sex specificity of dosage compensation

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 699-709

  Chang, Kimberly A ^a   Kuroda, Mitzi I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LETHAL GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031716947     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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