Article
The rpa (receptor potential absent) visual mutant of the blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala) is deficient in phospholipase C in the eye.
Journal of neurogenetics - 1 Jul 1994
McKay R R, Miller K, Weckström M, Torkkeli P, Järvilehto M, Shortridge R D
Abstract excerpt
The rpa (receptor potential absent) mutation of the blowfly, Calliphora erythrocephala, reduces the light-evoked responses of photoreceptor cells and renders the fly blind. This phenotype is similar to the phenotype caused by norpA mutations in Drosophila which have been shown to occur within a g...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Diptera
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Evoked Potentials
- Light
- Mutation
- Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase
- Phospholipase C beta
- Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
- Type C Phospholipases