Lethality Patterns and Morphology of Selected Lethal and Semi-Lethal Mutations in the Zeste-White Region of DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER |
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| Authors: | M. P. Shannon T. C. Kaufman M. W. Shen B. H. Judd |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 |
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| Abstract: | Aspects of the developmental genetics of lethal and semi-lethal mutants representing 13 complementation groups (cistrons) in the 3A-3C region of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster are given. Each of these cistrons is associated with a particular chromomere in the salivary gland chromosome. Mutants within each cistron have similar lethality patterns and morphological attributes, and the characteristics of a given cistron are distinct with respect to other cistrons. These results provide additional evidence that only one function is associated with each chromomere.-The results of the lethality pattern analysis are also compared with previous studies of lethal mutants of Drosophila. |
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