The Ceratitis capitata homologue of the Drosophila sex-determining gene Sex-lethal is structurally conserved, but not sex-specifically regulated

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1495-1500

  Saccone, Giuseppe ^a   Peluso, Ivana ^a   Artiaco, Dora ^a   Giordano, Ennio ^a   Bopp, Daniel ^b   Polito, Lino C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ceratitis; Drosophila; Evolution; Sex determination; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOUSE FLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ACALYPTRATAE; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CAPITATA; CERATITIS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0031840350     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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