Volume 26, Issue 3-4, 2013

Special Issue: Obaid Siddiqi at 80 and Neurogenetics in India

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Special Issue Articles

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Editorial

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Obaid Siddiqi at 80 and Neurogenetics in India

Guest Editors K. S. Krishnan & Mani Ramaswami; Editor-in-Chief Chun-Fang Wu

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Perspective

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Obaid Siddiqi: Celebrating His Life in Science and the Cultural Transmission of Its Values

K. Vijayraghavan

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Original Research Articles

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An Exciting Journey Into Excitability

Satpal Singh

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A Welcome to Drosophila Olfaction

John R. Carlson

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The Early Years of Drosophila Chemosensory Genetics in Mumbai's Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Gaiti Hasan

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Commentary

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‘Humans and Other Animals’—On the Scope of Brain Science

M. Heisenberg

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Obaid Siddiqi and the Justification for Giving Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research

John Nicholls

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Reviews

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Potassium Channels in Drosophila: Historical Breakthroughs, Significance, and Perspectives

Roman V. Frolov, Archis Bagati, Brittany Casino, & Satpal Singh

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Neurogenetics of Slow Axonal Transport: From Cells to Animals

Aparna Sadananda, & Krishanu Ray

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Original Research Articles

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Avoidance of Heat and Attraction to Optogenetically Induced Sugar Sensation as Operant Behavior in Adult Drosophila

Nidhi Nuwal, Patrick Stock, Jochen Hiemeyer, Benjamin Schmid, André Fiala, & Erich Buchner

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Automated Quantification of Locomotion, Social Interaction, and Mate Preference in Drosophila Mutants

Atulya Iyengar, Jordan Imoehl, Atsushi Ueda, Jeffery Nirschl, & Chun-Fang Wu

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A mutation in Drosophila Aldolase Causes Temperature-Sensitive Paralysis, Shortened Lifespan, and Neurodegeneration

Daniel Miller, Colleen Hannon, & Barry Ganetzky

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Functional Complementation of Drosophila itpr Mutants by Rat Itpr1

Sumita Chakraborty & Gaiti Hasan

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Identification of a Suppressor of Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila Photoreceptors

Plamen Georgiev, Sarah Toscano, Amit Nair, Roger Hardie, & Padinjat Raghu

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Genetic Modifiers of comatose Mutations in Drosophila: Insights Into Neuronal NSF (N-Ethylmaleimide–Sensitive Fusion Factor) Functions

Subhabrata Sanyal & K. S. Krishnan

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Photogallery

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Special Issue Photogallery

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Regular Submissions

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Original Research Articles

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Behavioral Phenotypic Properties of a Natural Occurring Rat Model of Congenital Stationary Night Blindness With Cacna1f Mutation

Jing An, Li Wang, Qun Guo, Li Li, Feng Xia, & Zuoming Zhang

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The Drosophila Homologue of Tubulin-Specific Chaperone E–Like Protein Is Required for Synchronous Sperm Individualization and Normal Male Fertility

Tulip Nuwal, Marlene Kropp, Stephanie Wegener, Sonja Racic, Itsaso Montalban, & Erich Buchner

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KCNH2 Gene Mutation: A Potential Link Between Epilepsy and Long QT-2 Syndrome

José J. Zamorano-León, Rosa Yañez, Gabriel Jaime, Pablo Rodriguez-Sierra, Laura Calatrava-Ledrado, Roman R. Alvarez-Granada, Petra Jiménez Mateos-Cáceres, Carlos Macaya, & Antonio J. López-Farré

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Polymorphisms in Genes Involved in Inflammatory Pathways in Patients with Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Mariko Hiramatsu, Masaaki Teranishi, Yasue Uchida, Naoki Nishio, Hidenori Suzuki, Ken Kato, Hironao Otake, Tadao Yoshida, Mitsuhiko Tagaya, Hirokazu Suzuki, Michihiko Sone, Saiko Sugiura, Fujiko Ando, Hiroshi Shimokata, & Tsutomu Nakashima

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Inter-tissue Networks Between the Basal Forebrain, Hippocampus, and Prefrontal Cortex in a Model for Depression Caused by Disturbed Sleep

Markus Lagus, Natalia Gass, Juha Saharinen, Sergey Savelyev, Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, & Tiina Paunio

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Clinical, In Silico, and Experimental Evidence for Pathogenicity of Two Novel Splice Site Mutations in the SH3TC2 Gene

Petra Laššuthová, Martin Gregor, Lenka Sarnová, Eliška Machalová, Radek Sedláček, & Pavel Seeman

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Erratum

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Erratum

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Volume 26, Issue 2, 2013

Special Issue: Bill Pak's Vision: The Neurogenetics of Phototransduction

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Special Issue Articles

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Editorial

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Bill Pak's Vision: The Neurogenetics of Phototransduction

Guest Editor Joseph E. O'Tousa & Editor-in-Chief Chun-Fang Wu

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Reviews

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The History of the Prolonged Depolarizing Afterpotential (PDA) and Its Role in Genetic Dissection of Drosophila Phototransduction

Baruch Minke

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Proteomics of Drosophila Compound Eyes: Early Studies, Now, and the Future—Light-Induced Protein Phosphorylation as an Example

Hiroyuki Matsumoto

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Impact of Studies of the Drosophila norpA Mutation on Understanding Phototransduction

Randall D. Shortridge

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From Drosophila to Humans: Reflections on the Roles of the Prolyl Isomerases and Chaperones, Cyclophilins, in Cell Function and Disease

Paulo A. Ferreira & Andrew Orry

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The Regulations of Drosophila Phototransduction

Hung-Tat Leung, Shikoh Shino, & Eunju Kim

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In Search of Proteins That Are Important for Synaptic Functions in Drosophila Visual System

Eunju Kim, Shikoh Shino, Jaeseung Yoon, & Hung-Tat Leung

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Kinase Signaling Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: A Reverse Genetic Approach in Drosophila

Yong Huang, Sushila Shenoy, Bingwei Lu, Wencheng Liu, & Chenjian Li

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Perspective

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Bill Pak, Neurobiology, ninaE, and Me

Jay Hirsh

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Photogallery

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Pak Special Issue Photogallery

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Original Research Articles

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A Role for the Cytoplasmic DEAD Box Helicase Dbp21E2 in Rhodopsin Maturation and Photoreceptor Viability

Karen L. Hibbard & Joseph E. O'Tousa

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Mechanical and Temperature Stressor–Induced Seizure-and-Paralysis Behaviors in Drosophila Bang-Sensitive Mutants

Martin G. Burg & Chun-Fang Wu

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Behavioral Analysis of Drosophila Transformants Expressing Human Taste Receptor Genes in the Gustatory Receptor Neurons

Ryota Adachi, Yuko Sasaki, Hiromi Morita, Michio Komai, Hitoshi Shirakawa, Tomoko Goto, Akira Furuyama, & Kunio Isono

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Starvation-Induced Elevation of Taste Responsiveness and Expression of a Sugar Taste Receptor Gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Azusa Nishimura, Yuko Ishida, Aya Takahashi, Haruka Okamoto, Marina Sakabe, Masanobu Itoh, Toshiyuki Takano-Shimizu, & Mamiko Ozaki

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Regular Submissions

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Original Research Articles

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PDA (Prolonged Depolarizing Afterpotential)–Defective Mutants: The Story of nina's and ina's—pinta and santa maria, Too

William L. Pak, Shikoh Shino, & Hung-Tat Leung

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Serotonin is Critical for Rewarded Olfactory Short-Term Memory in Drosophila

Divya Sitaraman, Holly LaFerriere, Serge Birman, & Troy Zars

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Aging-Associated Alteration of Telomere Length and Subtelomeric Status in Female Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Toyoki Maeda, Jing Zhi Guan, Masamichi Koyanagi, Yoshihiro Higuchi, & Naoki Makino

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Erratum

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Correction: Phenotypic Variability in a Large Czech Family with a Dynamin 2 – Associated Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy

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Erratum

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Volume 26, Issue 1, 2013

Special Issue: The Hotta Neurogenetics School

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Special Issue Articles

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Editorial

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The Hotta Neurogenetics School

Guest Editors Yasushi Hiromi & Hitoshi Okamoto; Editor-in-Chief Chun-Fang Wu

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Perspectives

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Yoshiki Hotta's influence

Yuh-Nung Jan

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Yoshiki and KS222

William A. Harris

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A Personal Recollection of Yoshiki Hotta as a Mentor

Hitoshi Okamoto

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Working with Yoshiki: Two-Dimensional Gels and Freeze-Drying Fruitflies

Shinobu C. Fujita

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A Sense of Presentation: Hotta's Maxims

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai

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Yoshiki Hotta's Challenge: From 2004 Onwards

Tadashi Uemura & Kaoru Sugimura

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New Directions of EvoDevo: Revisiting Ideas of Professor Hotta

Yasuko Akiyama-Oda

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Reviews

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Yoshiki Hotta and the Dawn of Zebrafish Molecular Neurogenetics in Japan

Shin-ichi Higashijima & Hitoshi Okamoto

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Phosphoinositide Metabolism in Drosophila Phototransduction: A Coffee Break Discussion Leads to 30 Years of History

Emiko Suzuki, Ichiro Masai, & Hiroko Inoue

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Acute Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Activity for the Functional Dissection of Neural Circuits—A Dream Come True for the Pioneers of Behavioral Genetics

Moto Yoshihara & Kei Ito

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Original Research Articles​

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Identification of Proteasome Components Required for Apical Localization of Chaoptin Using Functional Genomics

Hiroyuki Yano, Miki Yamamoto-Hino, Wakae Awano, Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita, Kayoko Tsuda-Sakurai, Hideyuki Okano, & Satoshi Goto

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Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Metabolism in Synaptic Growth, Strength, and Precision: Neural and Behavioral Phenotype-Specific Counterbalancing Effects between dnc Phosphodiesterase and rut Adenylyl Cyclase Mutations

Atsushi Ueda & Chun-Fang Wu

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Photogallery

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Hotta Special Issue Photogallery

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Regular Submission

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Original Research Article

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Mapping Neural Circuits with Activity-Dependent Nuclear Import of a Transcription Factor

Kaoru Masuyama, Yi Zhang, Yi Rao, & Jing W. Wang

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Volume 26, Supplementary Issue 1, 2013

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Abstracts

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Abstracts for Plenary Lectures 

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