Selective high-affinity transport of aspartate by a Drosophila homologue of the excitatory amino-acid transporters

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 207-210

  Besson, Marie Thérèse ^a   Soustelle, Laurent ^a   Birman, Serge ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034708256     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00339-0     Document Type: Article

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