Reflections on a path to sexual commitment

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1179-1185

  Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ALLELE; AUTOREGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 17444410748     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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