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.
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Wasserman, S. Multi-layered regulation of courtship behaviour. Nat Cell Biol 2, E145–E146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35019626
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