A Drosophila calcium channel α1 subunit gene maps to a genetic locus associated with behavioral and visual defects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 7868-7879

  Smith, Lee A ^a   Wang, XinJing ^b   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a   Neumann, Eric K ^a,c   Hall, Linda M ^b   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Bolt Beranek/Newman Syst/T   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; cDNA sequence; chromosome aberrations; phenylalkylamine binding site; RNA editing; vital gene

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; LETHAL MUTANT; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0029808911     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-24-07868.1996     Document Type: Article

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