Developmental Link between Sex and Nutrition; doublesex Regulates Sex-Specific Mandible Growth via Juvenile Hormone Signaling in Stag Beetles

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gotoh, Hiroki ^a,b   Miyakawa, Hitoshi ^a,c   Ishikawa, Asano ^a,d   Ishikawa, Yuki ^a,e   Sugime, Yasuhiro ^a   Emlen, Douglas J ^f   Lavine, Laura C ^b   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CMDSX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOMMATUS METALLIFER; DSX GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; EATING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MALE; MANDIBLE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896738729     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004098     Document Type: Article

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