Spenito is required for sex determination in Drosophila melanogaster

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

Volumn 112, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 11606-11611

  Yan, Dong ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Germ line stem cell; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NITO PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SXL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESSENTIAL GENE; GERMLINE STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS BREEDING; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; WING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84941696042     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515891112     Document Type: Article

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