Aberrant splicing of an alternative exon in the Drosophila troponin-T gene affects flight muscle development

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 295-306

  Nongthomba, Upendra ^a,b   Ansari, Maqsood ^a,c   Thimmaiya, Divesh ^b   Stark, Meg ^a   Sparrow, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN C; TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; LARVA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTATION; MYOSINS; SARCOMERES; TROPONIN T; WING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 35048817015     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.056812     Document Type: Article

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