Virilizer regulates Sex-lethal in the germline of Drosophila melanogaster

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1501-1507

  Schütt, Corina ^a   Hilfikerrolf, Andres ^a,b   Nöthiger, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Drosophila; Maternal effect; Oogenesis; Sex determination; Sxl; Virilizer (vir)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; OOGENESIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; VIR;

EID: 2642617813     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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