Bioassaying Putative RNA-Binding Motifs in a Protein Encoded by a Gene That Influences Courtship and Visually Mediated Behavior in Drosophila: In Vitro Mutagenesis of nonA

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 259-275

  Stanewsky, Ralf ^a   Fry, Thomas A ^a   Reim, Ingolf ^b   Saumwebert, Harald ^b,c   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA BINDING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0029932357     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/143.1.259     Document Type: Article

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