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Sex determination: sex on the brain?
1Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2703, USA. mfw5@cornell.edu
Current Biology : CB
|February 8, 2003
Abstract:
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.