LETHALITY PATTERNS AND MORPHOLOGY OF SELECTED LETHAL AND SEMI-LETHAL MUTATIONS IN THE ZESTE-WHITE REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER | Zendy

M P Shan | Zendy; Thomas C. Kaufman | Zendy; Min Shen | Zendy; B H Judd | Zendy

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LETHALITY PATTERNS AND MORPHOLOGY OF SELECTED LETHAL AND SEMI-LETHAL MUTATIONS IN THE ZESTE-WHITE REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Author(s) -

M P Shan,

Thomas C. Kaufman,

Min Shen,

B H Judd

Publication year - 1972

Publication title -

genetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1943-2631

pISSN - 0016-6731

DOI - 10.1093/genetics/72.4.615

Subject(s) - cistron , biology , drosophila melanogaster , complementation , genetics , mutant , white (mutation) , chromatid , chromosome , phenotype , x chromosome , lethal allele , lethality , melanogaster , gene

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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