The Drosophila black enigma: The molecular and behavioural characterization of the black1 mutant allele

Gene

Volumn 351, Issue , 2005, Pages 131-142

  Phillips, A Marie ^a   Smart, Renee ^a   Strauss, Roland ^b   Brembs, Björn ^c   Kelly, Leonard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

alanine; Aspartate decarboxylase; Buridan's paradigm; Electroretinogram; Frame shift mutation; Visual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYLYASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DGAD2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CUTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BETA-ALANINE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBOXY-LYASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 19544366762     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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