Nonautonomous Sex Determination Controls Sexually Dimorphic Development of the Drosophila Gonad
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Nonautonomous sex determination controls sexually dimorphic development of the Drosophila gonad.
Sex determination in Drosophila is commonly thought to be a cell-autonomous process, where each cell decides its own sexual fate based on its sex chromosome constitution (XX versus XY). This is in contrast to sex determination in mammals, which largely acts nonautonomously through cell-cell signaling. Here we examine how sexual dimorphism is created in the Drosophila gonad by investigating the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Cell
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1534-5807
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.12.005