Genetic analysis of chromosomal region 97D2-9 of Drosophila melanogaster |
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Authors: | Wayne R. Knibb Richard G. Tearle Abigail Elizur Robert Saint |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, 5001 Adelaide, SA, Australia;(2) CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia;(3) Present address: Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd., PO Box 1212, 8812 Eilat, Israel |
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Abstract: | The rough homeobox gene of D. melanogaster is required for the correct patterning of the developing eye. The locus maps to cytological location 97D2-5, a region which has not been extensively characterised. As part of our genetic and molecular characterization of rough we carried out an EMS mutagenesis to generate mutants that map to the surrounding region, 97D2-9 which is deleted in Df(3R)ro-XB3. We have generated 1 visible and 13 lethal mutations which, together with the previously described Toll and ms(3)K10 loci, and other unpublished lethals, define nine complementation groups — four lethal, three semi-lethal, one visible and one male-sterile. In addition to rough, one other locus within this region, 1(3)97De, was shown to be required for formation of the normal pattern of photoreceptor cells in the compound eye.The first two authors contributed equally to the work described in this paper |
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Keywords: | Drosophila melanogaster rough 97D |
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