The mutant phenotype associated with P-element alleles of the vestigial locus in Drosophila melanogaster may be caused by a readthrough transcript initiated at the P-element promoter.

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We report here the isolation of a new P-element-induced allele of the vestigial locus vg(2a33), the molecular characterization of which allows us to propose a unifying explanation of the phenotypes of the large number of vestigial P-element alleles that now exists. The first P-element allele of vestigial to be isolated was vg(21), which results in a very weak mutant wing phenotype that is suppressed in the P...

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