… components are expressed and activated in the Drosophila testis To determine whether
ecdysone signaling plays a role in the adult Drosophila testis, we began by asking whether …

… that steroid signaling plays an important sex-specific role in early germ cell development in
Drosophila, … pathway genes are differentially expressed between ovaries and testes and are …

… In the testis, the nucleosome remodeling factor (NURF) … Are Regulated by Systemic Signaling
The insulin signaling pathway, … The steroid hormone ecdysone also regulates female GSC …

… signalling is implicated in mammalian prostate development [15] and cancer growth and
metastasis [16,17], steroid signalling … Aberrations in steroid signalling are implicated in both …

… TOR activity is required for somatic cell differentiation in the Drosophila testis 35 ;
accordingly, a band of TOR activation was observed in early somatic cells, as reflected by …

… In the Drosophila ovary, the steroid hormone ecdysone … can be modulated systemically by
steroid hormones that act directly … Drosophila testis, although the role of ecdysone signaling in …

… that in the fruit fly Drosophila … signaling in the testis is at least partly due to Dsx-dependent
regulation of EcR expression. Therefore, invertebrates like Drosophila that utilize the steroid …

… GSCs within the adult Drosophila testis; somatic stem cells in … signaling regulate GSC
maintenance in the Drosophila testis… ovary, where NURF functions together with the steroid …

… steroid … Drosophila Osbp family genes, CG1513, CG3860 and CG5077, did not rescue
the fertility of Osbp mutants, implying that OSBP has a distinct function in the Drosophila testis …

… It is tempting to speculate that such a mechanism may hold true in Drosophila testes as well.
To date, the mechanisms regulating X-linked genes expression in testes such as meiotic sex…