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Cell shape and interaction defects in alpha-spectrin mutants of Drosophila melanogaster.

The Journal of cell biology - 1 Dec 1993

Lee J K, Coyne R S, Dubreuil R R, Goldstein L S, Branton D

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We show that the alpha-spectrin gene is essential for larval survival and development by characterizing several alpha-spectrin mutations in Drosophila. P-element minigene rescue and sequence analysis were used to identify the alpha-spectrin gene as the l(3)dre3 complementation group of the Dras-Roughened-ecdysoneless region of chromosome 3 (Sliter et al., 1988). Germ line transformants carrying an alpha-spectrin...

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PMID: 8276898
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.123.6.1797
PMCID: PMC2290878

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