Abstract
Sex on the Fly
Highlights
Flies look pretty much alike to most people, to scientists working with Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies under a dissecting microscope, the differences between adult male flies and female flies are obvious
Sexual differentiation depends on expression in gonadal tissue of the SRY gene, which resides on the malespecific Y chromosome
Sexual differentiation is different in Drosophila, as Bruce Baker and Kimberly Ridge first described in a 1980 Genetics paper called ‘‘Sex and the Single Cell
Summary
Flies look pretty much alike to most people, to scientists working with Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies under a dissecting microscope, the differences between adult male flies and female flies are obvious. Sexual differentiation depends on expression in gonadal tissue of the SRY gene, which resides on the malespecific Y chromosome.
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