Temporally manipulated rescue of visual and courtship abnormalities caused by a nonA mutation in Drosophila

Journal of Neurogenetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 247-256

  Rendahl, Katherine G ^a   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship song; Electroretinogram; Heat shock promoter transgenic; no on transient A gene; Optomotor behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISUAL DISORDER; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030225914     PISSN: 01677063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01677069609083466     Document Type: Article

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