Neurotransmitter transporter-like: A male germlinespecific SLC6 transporter required for Drosophila spermiogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chatterjee, Nabanita ^a   Rollins, Janet ^a,c   Mahowald, Anthony P ^b   Bazinet, Christopher ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Division of Natural Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 6; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORTER; NTL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; GLYCATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORTER LIKE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SLC6 GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FERTILITY; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 79551514640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016275     Document Type: Article

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