Open AccessAlfred Sturtevant Walks into a Bar: Gene Dosage, Gene Position, and Unequal Crossing Over in Drosophila
Author(s) -
Mariana F. Wolfner,
Danny E. Miller
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1534/genetics.116.195891
Subject(s) - drosophila (subgenus) , biology , mutation , bar (unit) , genetics , gene , position (finance) , physics , finance , meteorology , economics
![][1] By the early 1920s, the existence of mutations was well established, but how they could be generated remained a topic of lively speculation. One interesting case was the Drosophila Bar mutation ([Tice 1914][2]). While normal flies have round eyes, the X-linked mutation Bar ( B
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