The m 6 A pathway facilitates sex determination in Drosophila

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kan, Lijuan ^a   Grozhik, Anya V ^b   Vedanayagam, Jeffrey ^a   Patil, Deepak P ^b   Pang, Nan ^a   Lim, Kok Seong ^c   Huang, Yi Chun ^d   Joseph, Brian ^a   Lin, Ching Jung ^a   Despic, Vladimir ^a   Guo, Jian ^e,f   Yan, Dong ^e   Kondo, Shu ^g   Deng, Wu Min ^d   Dedon, Peter C ^c   Jaffrey, Samie R ^b   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; SXL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SXL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; SEX DETERMINATION;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ADENOSINE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRONS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85021701290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15737     Document Type: Article

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