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Catello Polito

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Salvemini M, Polito C, Saccone G
J Genet . 2010 Sep; 89(3):287-99. PMID: 20876995
Courtship behaviours are common features of animal species that reproduce sexually. Typically, males are involved in courting females. Insects display an astonishing variety of courtship strategies primarily based on innate...
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Ruiz M, Milano A, Salvemini M, Eirin-Lopez J, Perondini A, Selivon D, et al.
PLoS One . 2007 Nov; 2(11):e1239. PMID: 18043746
In the tephritids Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera oleae, the gene transformer acts as the memory device for sex determination, via an auto-regulatory function; and functional Tra protein is produced only...
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Pane A, De Simone A, Saccone G, Polito C
Genetics . 2005 Jul; 171(2):615-24. PMID: 15998727
Transformer functions as a binary switch gene in the sex determination and sexual differentiation of Drosophila melanogaster and Ceratitis capitata, two insect species that separated nearly 100 million years ago....
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Pane A, Salvemini M, Bovi P, Polito C, Saccone G
Development . 2002 Jul; 129(15):3715-25. PMID: 12117820
The medfly Ceratitis capitata contains a gene (Cctra) with structural and functional homology to the Drosophila melanogaster sex-determining gene transformer (tra). Similar to tra in Drosophila, Cctra is regulated by...