Commitment of abdominal neuroblasts in Drosophila to a male or female fate is dependent on genes of the sex-determining hierarchy.

doi:10.1242/dev.114.3.625

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Commitment of abdominal neuroblasts in Drosophila to a male or female fate is dependent on genes of the sex-determining hierarchy.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Mar 1992

Taylor B J, Truman J W

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Adult specific neurons in the central nervous system of holometabolous insects are generated by the postembryonic divisions of neuronal stem cells (neuroblasts). In the ventral nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster, sex-specific divisions by a set of abdominal neuroblasts occur during larval...

Topics

Abdomen
Animals
Central Nervous System
Drosophila
Female
Genes
Male
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Neurons
Phenotype
Sex Characteristics
Sex Differentiation
Stem Cells
Temperature

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