Evolution of the drosophila feminizing switch gene Sex-lethal

Genetics

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1321-1336

  Cline, Thomas W ^a   Dorsett, Maia ^a,b   Sun, Sha ^a,c   Harrison, Melissa M ^a   Dines, Jessica ^a,d   Sefton, Louise ^a,d   Megna, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BIO RAD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEX LETHAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EMBRYO; EXON; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, SWITCH; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79251560621     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.121202     Document Type: Article

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