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Locomotor performance in the Drosophila brain mutant drop-dead.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology - 1 Jul 2010
Lehmann Fritz-Olaf, Cierotzki Violetta
Abstract excerpt
Mutation of the drop-dead gene in Drosophila causes early death of the adult animal. After hatching from pupae, drop-dead mutants increasingly lose body control and typically die within ten days. Drop-dead carries an X-chromosomal recessive mutation that causes brain degeneration, due to a loss i...
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