Autoregulation of transformer-2 alternative splicing is necessary for normal male fertility in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1477-1486

  McGuffin, M Elaine ^a   Chandler, Dawn ^a   Somaiya, Darshna ^a   Dauwalder, Brigitte ^a   Mattox, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031854927     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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