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Identification of hypomorphic and null alleles of swallow via molecular and phenotypic analyses.
Development genes and evolution - 1 Apr 2004
Pokrywka Nancy Jo, Meng Lin, Debiec Katie, Stephenson Edwin C
Abstract excerpt
The swallow gene of Drosophila is required for the localization of two messenger RNAs, bicoid and hu-li tai shao, to the anterior pole of oocytes during the later stages of oogenesis. In addition, swallow appears to play a role in early embryogenesis, as swallow mutant embryos have defects in early nuclear cleavage and migration. In an effort to identify regions of the Swallow protein that are essential for...
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