Article
Tissue specific effects of ommochrome pathway mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetical research - 1 Jun 1991
Tearle R
Abstract excerpt
The tissue-specific effects of 17 mutations affecting the synthesis of brown eye pigment (xanthommatin) have been investigated by combining them with chocolate and red cells, two mutations causing ectopic pigmentation of the Malpighian tubules and larval fat body (which normally only synthesize pigment precursors). The majority of mutations block the pigmentation of four organs; the normally pigmented eyes and...
Topics
- Amino Acids
- Animals
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Fat Body
- Malpighian Tubules
- Mutation
- Ocular Physiological Phenomena
- Organ Specificity
- Oxazines
- Phenotype
- Pigments, Biological
- Pteridines