The gene transformer-2 of Sciara (Diptera, Nematocera) and its effect on Drosophila sexual development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gene transformer-2, which is involved in sex determination, has been studied in Drosophila, Musca, Ceratitis, Anastrepha and Lucilia. All these members of Diptera belong to the suborder Brachycera. In this work, it is reported the isolation and characterisation of genes transformer-2 of the dipterans Sciara ocellaris and Bradysia coprophila (formerly Sciara coprophila), which belong to the much less extensively analysed Sciaridae Family of the Suborder Nematocera, which is paraphyletic with respect to Suborder Brachycera.

Results

The transformer-2 genes of the studied Sciara species were found to be transcribed in both sexes during development and adult life, in both the soma and germ lines. They produced a single primary transcript, which follows the same alt

SUBMITTER: Martin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3068122 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature