A shared enhancer controls a temporal switch between promoters during Drosophila primary sex determination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18436-18441

  González, Alejandra N ^a   Lu, Hong ^b   Erickson, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

D. virilis; D. yakuba; Genetic switch; X:A ratio; XSE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LETHAL GENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA;

EID: 57449112546     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805993105     Document Type: Article

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