Male-specific Fruitless isoforms have different regulatory roles conferred by distinct zinc finger DNA binding domains

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dalton, Justin E ^a   Fear, Justin M ^b   Knott, Simon ^c   Baker, Bruce S ^d   McIntyre, Lauren M ^b   Arbeitman, Michelle N ^a,e  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Drosophila; Fruitless; Genomics; RNA seq; Sex hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FEMALE; FRUITLESS GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FRU PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ISOPROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84884695123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-659     Document Type: Article

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