The gene Sex-lethal of the sciaridae family (order diptera, suborder nematocera) and its phylogeny in dipteran insects

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 907-921

  Serna, Esther ^a   Gorab, Eduardo ^b   Ruiz, M Fernanda ^a   Goday, Clara ^a   Eirín López, José M ^c   Sánchez, Lucas ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN SXL; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RHYNCHOSCIARA AMERICANA; SCIARA COPROPHILA; SCIARIDAE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LETHAL GENE; TRICHOSIA PUBESCENS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, LETHAL; MEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BRACHYCERA; BRADYSIA COPROPHILA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; NEMATOCERA; RHYNCHOSCIARA AMERICANA; SCIARA; SCIARIDAE; TRICHOMEGALOSPHYS PUBESCENS;

EID: 8544234247     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.031278     Document Type: Article

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