The effects of ectopic white and transformer expression on Drosophila courtship behavior

Journal of Neurogenetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 227-243

  An, Xin ^a   Armstrong, J Douglas ^a   Kaiser, Kim ^a   O'Dell, Kevin M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bisexual courtship; Male reproductive behavior; Mini white transgene; Transformer gene

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0034440621     PISSN: 01677063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01677060009084500     Document Type: Article

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