The Drosophila takeout gene is regulated by the somatic sex-determination pathway and affects male courtship behavior

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2879-2892

  Dauwalder, Brigitte ^a   Tsujimoto, Susan ^a   Moss, Jason ^a   Mattox, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship behavior; Doublesex; Fat body; Fruitless; Gene family; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DSX; PROTEIN TRANSFORMER F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DOUBLESEX GENE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FRUITLESS GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT GENETICS; LIPOPHILICITY; MALE; MASCULINITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEX DETERMINATION; TAKEOUT GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COURTSHIP; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

INSECTA;

EID: 0037111999     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1010302     Document Type: Article

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