Sex and the single embryo: Early deveopment in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gabrieli, Paolo ^a   Falaguerra, Andrea ^a   Siciliano, Paolo ^a   Gomulski, Ludvik M ^a   Scolari, Francesca ^a   Zacharopoulou, Antigone ^b,c   Franz, Gerald ^b   Malacrida, Anna R ^a   Gasperi, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MYA;

INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77349101358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-10-12     Document Type: Article

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