Sex determination: sex on the brain?
Five newly identified sex-biased transcripts in Drosophila are full of surprises: although they are found in fly heads, and manipulating two of them affects mating behaviors, their genes are expressed sex-specifically in non-neural tissues. The way these genes are regulated suggests new complexities in the sex determination pathway.
Wolfner
Mariana F
MF
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2703, USA. mfw5@cornell.edu
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D017344:Genes, Insect; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D019849:Sex Determination Processes; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology