A Temperature-Sensitive Paralytic Mutant Defines a Primary Synaptic Calcium Channel in Drosophila

This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant IBN-9514485. We gratefully acknowledge several members of the lab, Bonnie Dellinger, Missy Hazen, and Kamal Tilakaratne for participating in aspects of this work. We thank Jeffrey C. Hall (Brandeis University) for providing several cac stocks and for stimulating discussions. Deficiency stocks were obtained from the Bloomington Stock Center.

Correspondence should be addressed to Richard W. Ordway, Department of Biology, 208 Mueller Laboratory, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802. E-mail: rwo4{at}psu.edu.