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Nature Cell Biology 2, E145 - E146 (2000)
doi:10.1038/35019626
Multi-layered regulation of courtship behaviour
Steven A. Wasserman1
- Steven A. Wasserman is at the Center for Molecular Genetics, Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA.
Correspondence to: Steven A. Wasserman1 email:e-mail: stevenw@ucsd.edu
Abstract
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.
