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Multi-layered regulation of courtship behaviour

Nature Cell Biology volume 2, pages E145–E146 (2000)Cite this article

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The fruitless gene governs courtship in male, but not female, Drosophila, yet it is expressed and specifically spliced in the brains of both sexes. New experiments reveal that a splice-recognition site retained in the mature message in females provides the basis for sex-specific translational repression.

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Figure 1: Diagram of the somatic pathway that governs male courtship and development of the male-specific muscle of Lawrence (MOL).
Figure 2: Schematic representation of the relationship between the 776-residue ORF present in the mature, male-specific fru mRNAs and the two corresponding ORFs (94 and 675 amino acids, respectively) in the female isoforms.

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