Article
[Some behavioral features in Drosophila melanogaster lines carrying a flamenco gene mutation].
Genetika - 1 Nov 2001
Subocheva E A, Romanova L G, Romanova N I, Kim A I
Abstract excerpt
Olfactory sensitivity and locomotor activity was assayed in Drosophila melanogaster strains carrying a mutation of the flamenco gene, which controls transposition of the mobile genetic element 4 (MGE4) retrotransposon the gypsy mobile element. A change in olfactory sensitivity was detected. The reaction to the odor of acetic acid was inverted in flies of the mutator strain (MS), which carried the flam mutation...
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