Defects in courtship and vision caused by amino acid substitutions in a putative RNA-binding protein encoded by the no-on-transient A (nonA) gene of Drosophila

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1511-1522

  Rendahl, Katherine G ^a,c   Gaukhshteyn, Natasha ^a   Wheeler, David A ^b   Fry, Thomas A ^a   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CELL GENESYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

courtship song; DBHS domain; electroretinogram; in vitro mutagenesis; RNA binding protein; visual behavior

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SINGING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029864864     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-04-01511.1996     Document Type: Article

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