Article
Retrotransposon-induced overexpression of a homeobox gene causes defects in eye morphogenesis in Drosophila.
The EMBO journal - 1 Feb 1991
Tanda S, Corces V G
Abstract excerpt
Insertion of the tom transposable element into various Drosophila ananassae genes results in dominant phenotypes that affect eye morphology. One of these genes encoded by the Om(1D) locus was isolated by transposon tagging. The Om(1D) gene encodes a 2.7 kb transcript that is expressed in every st...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Eye
- Genes, Homeobox
- Larva
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Pupa
- Restriction Mapping