About females and males: Continuity and discontinuity in flies

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-323

  Bopp, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; Drosophila melanogaster; Musca domestica; sex determination; Sex lethal; transformer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLY; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; HOUSE FLY; MALE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HOUSEFLIES; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 78349263028     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-010-0043-9     Document Type: Article

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