The receptor tyrosine kinase gene linotte is required for neuronal pathway selection in the Drosophila mushroom bodies.

doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00147-6

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The receptor tyrosine kinase gene linotte is required for neuronal pathway selection in the Drosophila mushroom bodies.

Mechanisms of development - 1 Nov 1998

Moreau-Fauvarque C, Taillebourg E, Boissoneau E, Mesnard J, Dura J M

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The linotte (lio) mutant was first isolated as a memory mutant. The lio gene encodes a putative receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK), homologous to the human protein RYK. This gene has been independently identified in a screen for embryonic nervous system axonal guidance defects and called derailed (dr...

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Animals
Brain
Cell Lineage
Drosophila Proteins
Drosophila melanogaster
Insect Proteins
Memory
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Phenotype
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
Transgenes

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