Gene Review:
shakB - shaking B
Drosophila melanogaster
Synonyms:
CG12678, CG1321, CG15451, CG32508, CG34358, ...
- Passover: a gene required for synaptic connectivity in the giant fiber system of Drosophila. Krishnan, S.N., Frei, E., Swain, G.P., Wyman, R.J. Cell (1993)
- Drosophila Shaking-B protein forms gap junctions in paired Xenopus oocytes. Phelan, P., Stebbings, L.A., Baines, R.A., Bacon, J.P., Davies, J.A., Ford, C. Nature (1998)
- eat-5 and unc-7 represent a multigene family in Caenorhabditis elegans involved in cell-cell coupling. Starich, T.A., Lee, R.Y., Panzarella, C., Avery, L., Shaw, J.E. J. Cell Biol. (1996)
- Molecular basis of intracistronic complementation in the Passover locus of Drosophila. Krishnan, S.N., Frei, E., Schalet, A.P., Wyman, R.J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1995)
- Essential and neural transcripts from the Drosophila shaking-B locus are differentially expressed in the embryonic mesoderm and pupal nervous system. Crompton, D., Todman, M., Wilkin, M., Ji, S., Davies, J. Dev. Biol. (1995)
- The Passover locus in Drosophila melanogaster: complex complementation and different effects on the giant fiber neural pathway. Baird, D.H., Schalet, A.P., Wyman, R.J. Genetics (1990)
- The shaking B gene in Drosophila regulates the number of gap junctions between photoreceptor terminals in the lamina. Shimohigashi, M., Meinertzhagen, I.A. J. Neurobiol. (1998)
- Null mutation in shaking-B eliminates electrical, but not chemical, synapses in the Drosophila giant fiber system: a structural study. Blagburn, J.M., Alexopoulos, H., Davies, J.A., Bacon, J.P. J. Comp. Neurol. (1999)
- The shaker and shaking-B genes specify elements in the processing of gustatory information in Drosophila melanogaster. Balakrishnan, R., Rodrigues, V. J. Exp. Biol. (1991)
- Gap junction proteins are not interchangeable in development of neural function in the Drosophila visual system. Curtin, K.D., Zhang, Z., Wyman, R.J. J. Cell. Sci. (2002)
- Synaptogenesis in the giant-fibre system of Drosophila: interaction of the giant fibre and its major motorneuronal target. Jacobs, K., Todman, M.G., Allen, M.J., Davies, J.A., Bacon, J.P. Development (2000)
- Localization of the genes shaking-B, small optic lobes, sluggish-A, stoned and stress-sensitive-C to a well-defined region on the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Miklos, G.L., Kelly, L.E., Coombe, P.E., Leeds, C., Lefevre, G. J. Neurogenet. (1987)
- Mutations in shaking-B prevent electrical synapse formation in the Drosophila giant fiber system. Phelan, P., Nakagawa, M., Wilkin, M.B., Moffat, K.G., O'Kane, C.J., Davies, J.A., Bacon, J.P. J. Neurosci. (1996)
- Dendritic reduction in Passover, a Drosophila mutant with a defective giant fiber neuronal pathway. Baird, D.H., Koto, M., Wyman, R.J. J. Neurobiol. (1993)