Sexual back talk with evolutionary implications: Stimulation of the Drosophila sex-determination gene Sex-lethal by its target transformer

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1963-1981

  Siera, Scott G ^a   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; SEX LETHAL GENE; SOMATIC CELL; SRY GENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GONADS; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

DIPTERA;

EID: 61849140572     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.093898     Document Type: Article

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