Functional conservation and divergence of intersex, a gene required for female differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Siegal, Mark L ^a,b   Baker, Bruce S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Intersex protein; Sex determination (genetics)

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INTERSEX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYMENOPTERA; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12144283012     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0445-x     Document Type: Article

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