The sex determination master switch, Sex-lethal, responds to hedgehog signaling in the Drosophila germline

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2649-2660

  Vied, C ^a   Horabin, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germline; Hedgehog; Ovaries; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; KINESIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SEX LETHAL PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HEDGEHOG; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; INSECT PROTEINS; KINESIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBULIN;

ARACHNIDA; CUBITUS; CUBITUS INTERRUPTUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034923839     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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