Male-specific expression of the Fruitless protein is not common to all Drosophila species

Genetica

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 267-272

  Yamamoto, Daisuke ^a,b   Usui Aoki, Kazue ^a   Shima, Seigo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Fruitless; Sex determination; Transformer; Translational control

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FRU PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA SUZUKII; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1842432107     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GENE.0000017648.15038.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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