Hox-mediated regulation of doublesex sculpts sex-specific abdomen morphology in Drosophila

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1076-1090

  Wang, Wei ^a   Yoder, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal B; Doublesex; Drosophila melanogaster; Evolution; Hox proteins; Segmentation; Sex determination; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DSX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOBOX; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PUPA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84861186535     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23791     Document Type: Article

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