Molecular population genetics of sex determination genes: the transformer gene of Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1093/genetics/136.4.1367

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Molecular population genetics of sex determination genes: the transformer gene of Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetics - 1 Apr 1994

Walthour C S, Schaeffer S W

Abstract excerpt

The transformer locus (tra) produces an RNA processing protein that alternatively splices the doublesex pre-mRNA in the sex determination hierarchy of Drosophila melanogaster. Comparisons of the tra coding region among Drosophila species have revealed an unusually high degree of divergence in syn...

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Animals
Base Sequence
DNA Primers
Drosophila melanogaster
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Sex Differentiation

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