Article
New unusual miniature-like wing mutation in Drosophila virilis.
Journal of morphology - 1 Sept 2004
Kozeretska Irina A, Gubenko Irina S, Gorb Stanislav N
Abstract excerpt
A new recessive, sex-linked, nonlethal in the homozygote, wing mutation in Drosophila virilis was studied using a hybridological assay, light microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. The mutants have abnormally small wings; the phenotype is attributed to a cell-autonomous reduction in the size of the epidermal cells of the differentiating wing. The phenotype is also characterized by abnormally oriented...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Count
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Homozygote
- Membrane Proteins
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Mutation
- Organ Size
- Phenotype
- Wings, Animal
