Gravitaxis in Drosophila melanogaster: A forward genetic screen

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-239

  Armstrong, J D ^a   Texada, M J ^b   Munjaal, R ^b   Baker, D A ^a   Beckingham, K M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Drosophila; Geotaxis; Graviperception; Gravitaxis; Mechanosensation; Neural architecture; Peripheral sense organs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAVITAXIS; GRAVITY; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MUTANT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; YURI GENE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SENSE ORGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645450571     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2005.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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