Characterization of Drosophila tyramine β-hydroxylase gene and isolation of mutant flies lacking octopamine

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3900-3911

  Monastirioti, Maria ^a,c   Linn Jr , Charles E ^b   White, Kalpana ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

cloning of Tyramine hydroxylase; Dopamine hydroxylase; Drosophila neurogenetics; egg laying behavior; octopamine null mutant; TBH immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; OCTOPAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 0029950855     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-12-03900.1996     Document Type: Article

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