Cell-autonomous and somatic signals control sex-specific gene expression in XY germ cells of Drosophila

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-13

  Janzer, Birgit ^a   Steinmann Zwicky, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Germline; Sex determination; Sex lethal; Sex specific gene expression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GERM LINE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OVARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035211878     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00529-3     Document Type: Article

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