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Rediscovery and further characterization of the aeroplane (ae) wing posture mutation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genome - 1 Jun 1999
Soanes K H, Bell J B
Abstract excerpt
In 1931, Theodore Quelprud characterized a novel spontaneous mutation in Drosophila melanogaster, which was named aeroplane (ae) based on its abnormal wing posture. Although the characterization of the original ae locus was minimal, it is very likely that another allele of this extinct mutation has now been identified. aeroplane-like (ae-l) was isolated as a by-product of a transformation experiment. The apparent...
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