Mutations of the Drosophila myosin regulatory light chain affect courtship song and reduce reproductive success

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Chakravorty, Samya ^a   Vu, Hien ^a   Foelber, Veronica ^a   Vigoreaux, Jim O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MYOSIN REGULATORY LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DMLC2 GENE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE MUTATION; INDIRECT FLIGHT MUSCLE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; REPRODUCTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896349381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090077     Document Type: Article

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