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Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing

2019-03-26

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Insects are the only animals in which sexual differentiation is controlled by sex-specific RNA splicing. The doublesex ( dsx ) transcription factor produces distinct male and female protein isoforms (DsxM and DsxF) under the control of the RNA splicing factor transformer ( tra ). tra itself is also alternatively spliced so that a functional Tra protein is only present in females; thus, DsxM...

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Literature Corpus work: b759e3a9-0cfc-5187-808a-1a02de561b2b
DOI: 10.1101/587964

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