A putative vesicular transporter expressed in Drosophila mushroom bodies that mediates sexual behavior may define a neurotransmitter system

Neuron

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 316-329

  Brooks, Elizabeth S ^a   Greer, Christina L ^a   Romero Calderón, Rafael ^a   Serway, Christine N ^a   Grygoruk, Anna ^a   Haimovitz, Jasmine M ^a   Nguyen, Bac T ^a   Najibi, Rod ^a   Tabone, Christopher J ^b   Steven de Belle, J ^b   Krantz, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; PORTABELLA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN; CENTRAL COMPLEX; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENDER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; KENYON CELL; LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE TERM MEMORY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PORTABELLA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MUSHROOM BODIES; MUTATION; NEURONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 80054836138     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.08.032     Document Type: Article

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