Conservation and Sex-Specific Splicing of the transformer Gene in the Calliphorids Cochliomyia hominivorax, Cochliomyia macellaria and Lucilia sericata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Li, Fang ^a   Vensko II, Steven P ^a   Belikoff, Esther J ^a   Scott, Maxwell J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CALLIPHORIDAE; COCHLIOMYIA; COCHLIOMYIA MACELLARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRON; LUCILIA SERICATA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84873606222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056303     Document Type: Article

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