Regulation of sex-specific selection of fruitless 5' splice sites by transformer and transformer-2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 450-458

  Heinrichs, Volker ^a   Ryner, Lisa C ^a   Baker, Bruce S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031972648     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.1.450     Document Type: Article

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