Sex peptide of Drosophila melanogaster males is a global regulator of reproductive processes in females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4423-4432

  Gioti, A ^a,b   Wigby, S ^a,c   Wertheim, B ^a,d   Schuster, E ^a,e   Martinez, P ^a   Pennington, C J ^f   Partridge, L ^a,g   Chapman, T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acp; Seminal fluid proteins; Sexual conflict; Transcription; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; FECUNDITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; MALE; PEPTIDE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84866863387     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1634     Document Type: Article

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