Males and females: Creating differences while maintaining the similarities

Fly

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Suissa, Yaron ^a   Ordan, Elly ^a   Deshpande, Girish ^b   Gerlitz, Offer ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Hrp48; Monomorphic organ development; Notch signaling; Sex determination; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 79551614618     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.5.1.14459     Document Type: Article

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