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The necrotic gene in Drosophila corresponds to one of a cluster of three serpin transcripts mapping at 43A1.2.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2000
Green C, Levashina E, McKimmie C, Dafforn T, Reichhart J M, Gubb D
Abstract excerpt
Mutants of the necrotic (nec) gene in Drosophila melanogaster die in the late pupal stage as pharate adults, or hatch as weak, but relatively normal-looking, flies. Adults develop black melanized spots on the body and leg joints, the abdomen swells with hemolymph, and flies die within 3 or 4 days of eclosion. The TOLL-mediated immune response to fungal infections is constitutively activated in nec mutants and...
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