Fruitless Represses robo1 Transcription to Shape Male-Specific Neural Morphology and Behavior in Drosophila

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1532-1542

  Ito, Hiroki ^a   Sato, Kosei ^a   Kondo, Shu ^b   Ueda, Ryu ^b   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FRU PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84976509859     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.067     Document Type: Article

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