Article
Mutations in the proximal region of the optomotor-blind locus of Drosophila melanogaster reveal a gradient of neuroanatomical and behavioral phenotypes.
Journal of neurogenetics - 1 Feb 1992
Brunner A, Wolf R, Pflugfelder G O, Poeck B, Heisenberg M
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the complex optomotor-blind (omb) gene locus (4C4-6) lead to a number of different phenotypes in various tissues of the adult Drosophila melanogaster fly. At the core of the locus lies a lethal complementation group, named l(1)omb, whose mutations cause larval and pupal lethality. Some 40% of all males hemizygous for lethal omb alleles develop to the pharate adult stage. These flies can be rescued...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Flight, Animal
- Genes, Lethal
- Male
- Mutation
- Optic Chiasm
- Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian