Behavioral and electrophysiological analysis of Ca-activated K-channel transgenes in drosophila

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 860, Issue , 1998, Pages 296-305

  Atkinson, Nigel S ^a   Brenner, Robert ^a   Bohm, Rudi A ^a   Yu, Joyce Y ^a   Wilbur, Jennette L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MIDGUT; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0032416289     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09057.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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