Regulatory and functional interactions between the somatic sex regulatory gene transformer and the germline genes ovo and ovarian tumor

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 861-871

  Hinson, Shannon ^a   Nagoshi, Rod N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germline; Oogenesis; ovarian tumor; ovo; transformer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENETIC MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033063704     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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