The Am-tra2 gene is an essential regulator of female splice regulation at two levels of the sex determination hierarchy of the honeybee

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1015-1026

  Nissen, Inga ^a   Müller, Miriam ^a   Beye, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AM TRA2; PROTEIN CSD; PROTEIN FERN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AM TRA2 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERN GENE; GENE; HONEYBEE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE ORDER; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

APIS MELLIFERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84869056828     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.143925     Document Type: Article

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