The mechanism of sex-specific splicing at the doublesex gene is different between Drosophila melanogaster and Bombyx mori

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1201-1211

  Suzuki, Masataka G ^a   Ohbayashi, Fumi ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Shimada, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Bombyx mori; Doublesex; In vitro splicing; Sex determination; Sex specific splicing

Indexed keywords

BMDSX PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEINS; DOUBLESEX PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSFORMER 2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMER-2 PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SILKWORM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 0035499595     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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