Assigning sex to pre-adult stalk-eyed flies using genital disc morphology and X chromosome zygosity

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Carr, Martin ^a   Cotton, Samuel ^b   Rogers, David W ^b   Pomiankowski, Andrew ^b   Smith, Hazel ^c   Fowler, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INSECT; LARVA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRECAMBRIAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOSITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DIPTERA; EYE; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PROCEDURES; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE;

DIASEMOPSIS MEIGENII; DIOPSIDAE; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTE;

EID: 33746737544     PISSN: 1471213X     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-6-29     Document Type: Article

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