RNA editing in the Drosophila Dmca1A calcium-channel α1 subunit transcript

Journal of Neurogenetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 227-240

  Smith, Lee A ^a,b   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a,c   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cacophony courtship song and visual system gene; Intron sequences; RT PCR analysis; Transcript RFLPs

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; DNA DETERMINATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032250813     PISSN: 01677063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01677069809108560     Document Type: Article

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