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Misregulation of sex-lethal and disruption of male-specific lethal complex localization in Drosophila species hybrids.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2006
Pal Bhadra Manika, Bhadra Utpal, Birchler James A
Abstract excerpt
A major model system for the study of evolutionary divergence between closely related species has been the unisexual lethality resulting from reciprocal crosses of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Sex-lethal (Sxl), a critical gene for sex determination, is misregulated in these hybrids. In hybrid males from D. melanogaster mothers, there is an abnormal expression of Sxl and a failure of localization of...
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