Article
hobo-induced rearrangements are responsible for mutation bursts at the yellow locus in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Mar 2000
Zakharenko L P, p6acheva E M, Romanova O A, Zakharov I K, Voloshina M A, Kochieva E Z, Simonova O B, Golubovsky M D, Georgiev P
Abstract excerpt
In 1981 recurrent local bursts of mutability of the yellow gene were observed in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster from Uman' (Ukraine). A series of y2-like mutations in the yellow gene were recovered during the period 1982 to 1991. Most of the mutants display the y2-phenotype, i.e. mutant yellow color of wings and body cuticle. Ninety-nine y2 mutants were shown to be generated by an inversion that...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Gene Rearrangement
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation