Courtship and other behaviors affected by a heat-sensitive, molecularly novel mutation in the cacophony calcium-channel gene of Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-153

  Chan, Betty ^a,b   Villella, Adriana ^a   Funes, Pablo ^a   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN CACOPHONY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; MATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEX RATIO; SINGING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036743490     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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