The Drosophila couch potato gene: an essential gene required for normal adult behavior.

doi:10.1093/genetics/131.2.365

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The Drosophila couch potato gene: an essential gene required for normal adult behavior.

Genetics - 1 Jun 1992

Bellen H J, Vaessin H, Bier E, Kolodkin A, D'Evelyn D, Kooyer S, Jan Y N

Abstract excerpt

Through enhancer detection screens we have isolated 14 insertions in an essential gene that is expressed in embryonic sensory mother cells (SMC), in most cells of the mature embryonic peripheral nervous system (PNS), and in glial cells of the PNS and the central nervous system (CNS). Embryos homo...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Behavior, Animal
Drosophila melanogaster
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Genes
Genes, Lethal
Genetics, Behavioral
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Neuroglia
Peripheral Nerves
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Stem Cells

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