Nonautonomous Sex Determination Controls Sexually Dimorphic Development of the Drosophila Gonad

Developmental Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 275-286

  DeFalco, Tony ^a   Camara, Nicole ^a   Le Bras, Stéphanie ^a   Van Doren, Mark ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

WNT2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GONADS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); STEM CELLS; TESTIS; WNT PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 38849184715     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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