Drosophila switch gene Sex-lethal can bypass its switch-gene target transformer to regulate aspects of female behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages

  Evans, Daniel S ^a,b   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE STERILITY; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTANT DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, SWITCH; MUTAGENESIS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVULATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84888099563     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319063110     Document Type: Article

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