Indirect effects of ploidy suggest X chromosome dose, not the X:A ratio, signals sex in Drosophila

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2821-2830

  Erickson, James W ^a   Quintero, Jerome J ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; AUTOSOME; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIPLOIDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; HAPLOIDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PLOIDY; PROMOTER REGION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TRIPLOIDY; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SXL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLOIDIES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 38549164743     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050332     Document Type: Article

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