Sex-lethal, the master sex-determining gene in Drosophila, is not sex-specifically regulated in Musca domestica

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1487-1494

  Meise, Martin ^a,b   Hilfiker Kleiner, Denise ^a,c   Dübendorfer, Andreas ^a   Brunner, Claudia ^a   Nöthiger, Rolf ^a   Bopp, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Insect; Musca domestica; Sex determination; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOUSE FLY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIPTERA; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOUSEFLIES; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0031864465     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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