Two female-specific DSX proteins are encoded by the sex-specific transcripts of dsx, and are required for female sexual differentiation in two wild silkmoth species, Antheraea assama and Antheraea mylitta (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 672-682

  Shukla, J N ^a   Nagaraju, J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Antheraea assama; Antheraea mylitta; OD1 domain; OD2 domain

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOTHS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

ANTHERAEA ASSAMA; ANTHERAEA MYLITTA; BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SATURNIIDAE;

EID: 77956186677     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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