Conservation and sex-specific splicing of the doublesex gene in the economically important pest species Lucilia cuprina

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-285

  Concha, Carolina ^a,b   Li, Fang ^a   Scott, Maxwell J ^a,c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; doublesex; Lucilia cuprina; sex determination

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; EXON; FEMALE; FLY; GENE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

CALYPTRATAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LUCILIA CUPRINA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 78349250518     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-010-0039-5     Document Type: Article

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