An extracellular activator of the Drosophila JAK/STAT pathway is a sex- determination signal element

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 970-971

  Sefton, Louise ^a   Timmer, John R ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Béranger, Florence ^a   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GLYCOPROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; JANUS; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 0034702262     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016119     Document Type: Article

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