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Control of Drosophila Sex-lethal pre-mRNA splicing by its own female-specific product.
Nucleic acids research - 11 Nov 1992
Sakamoto H, Inoue K, Higuchi I, Ono Y, Shimura Y
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila melanogaster somatic sexual differentiation is accomplished by serial function of the products of sex-determination genes. Sex-lethal (Sxl), is one such gene. It is functionally expressed only in female flies. The sex-specific expression of this gene is regulated by alternative mRNA splicing which results in either the inclusion or exclusion of the translation stop codon containing third exon. Although...
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