Courtship and visual defects of cacophony mutants reveal functional complexity of a calcium-channel α1 subunit in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1407-1426

  Smith, Lee A ^a,b   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a,c   Kramer, Elena M ^a,d   Villella, Adriana ^a   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Studio Art and Digital Media   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS); VISION DISORDERS; X CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031829605     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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