Role of the male BmDSX protein in the sexual differentiation of Bombyx mori

Evolution and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-68

  Suzuki, Masataka G ^a   Funaguma, Shunsuke ^b   Kanda, Toshio ^c   Tamura, Toshiki ^c   Shimada, Toru ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMDSX PROTEIN, BOMBYX MORI; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN;

INSECT; PROTEIN; SEX ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SILKWORM; TIME; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BOMBYX; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES; VITELLOGENINS;

BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 13444267846     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2005.05007.x     Document Type: Article

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