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SUBMITTER: Baba K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC104399 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baba K K Takeshita A A Majima K K Ueda R R Kondo S S Juni N N Yamamoto D D
Molecular and cellular biology 19990601 6
We isolated a Drosophila fickleP (ficP) mutant with a shortened copulatory duration and reduced adult-stage life span. The reduced copulatory duration is ascribable to incomplete fusion of the left and right halves of the apodeme that holds the penis during copulation. ficP is an intronic mutation occurring in the Btk gene, a gene which encodes two forms (type 1 and type 2) of a Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) family cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase as a result of alternative exon usage. The ficP muta ...[more]