Functional conservation of the fruitless male sex-determination gene across 250 Myr of insect evolution.
Male sexual behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is regulated by fruitless (fru), a sex-determination gene specifying the synthesis of BTB-Zn finger proteins that likely function as male-specific transcriptional regulators. Expression of fru in the nervous system specifies male sexual b...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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