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Alternatively spliced transcripts of the sex-determining gene tra-2 of Drosophila encode functional proteins of different size.
The EMBO journal - 1 Nov 1990
Amrein H, Maniatis T, Nöthiger R
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila transformer-2 gene (tra-2) is required for female sex determination in somatic cells and for spermatogenesis in male germ cells. We studied the organization of the tra-2 gene and characterized the transcripts in wild type and mutant animals. Two transcripts are detected in males and females; they differ in their abundance and in the presence (minor transcript Tmin) or absence (major transcript...
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