Isolation of mutations in the Drosophila homologues of the human Neurofibromatosis 2 and yeast CDC42 genes using a simple and efficient reverse-genetic method

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 245-252

  Fehon, Richard G ^a,b   Oren, Tal ^a   LaJeunesse, Dennis R ^a   Melby, Thomas E ^a   McCartney, Brooke M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COSMIDS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEUROFIBROMIN 2;

EID: 0030940549     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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