Fruitless specifies sexually dimorphic neural circuitry in the Drosophila brain

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7065, 2005, Pages 229-233

  Kimura, Ken Ichi ^a   Ote, Manabu ^b   Tazawa, Tatsunori ^a   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^b,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA FRUITLESS (FRU) GENE; FRU PROTEIN; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

GENES;

GENE PRODUCT;

NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITIC CELL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 27744512665     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04229     Document Type: Article

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