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SUBMITTER: Maeda RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067764 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maeda Robert K RK Sitnik Jessica L JL Frei Yohan Y Prince Elodie E Gligorov Dragan D Wolfner Mariana F MF Karch François F
PLoS genetics 20180716 7
Although thousands of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) have been identified in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, the precise function of most of them is still unclear. Here, we show that a >65 kb, male-specific, lncRNA, called male-specific abdominal (msa) is required for the development of the secondary cells of the Drosophila male accessory gland (AG). msa is transcribed from within the Drosophila bithorax complex and shares much of its sequence with another lncRNA, the iab-8 lncRNA, which is inv ...[more]