Sexually dimorphic regulation of the Wingless morphogen controls sex-specific segment number in Drosophila

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 11139-11144

  Wang, Wei ^a   Kidd, Bryan J ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^b   Yoder, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelia; Homeotic; Morphogenesis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN WG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMEN; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUPATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WING; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; METAZOA;

EID: 79960592859     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108431108     Document Type: Article

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