Recruitment of the Proneural Gene scute to the Drosophila Sex-Determination Pathway

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2007-2027

  Wrischnik, Lisa A ^a,b   Timmer, John R ^a,c   Megna, Lisa A ^a   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SCUTE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; X CHROMOSOME;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0347992011     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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