An assay for social interaction in Drosophila fragile X mutants

Fly

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 216-225

  Bolduc, Francois V ^a,b,c   Valente, Dan ^b   Nguyen, Antoinette T ^a   Mitra, Partha P ^a,b   Tully, Tim ^a,b,d  

^a WATSON SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d DART NEUROSCIENCE LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Drosophila; Fragile X; Novel assay; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957746347     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.3.12280     Document Type: Article

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