Sex Mysteries of the Fly Courtship Master Regulator Fruitless

The fruitless (fru) gene of Drosophila melanogaster generates two groups of protein products, the male-specific FruM proteins and non-sex-specific FruCOM proteins. The FruM proteins have a 101 amino acids (a.a.)-long extension at the N-terminus which is absent from FruCOM. We suggest that this N-ter...

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Main Authors: Kosei Sato, Junpei Goto, Daisuke Yamamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00245/full