[Hidden polyteny in giant embryonic nuclei of Drosophila melanogaster gnu mutants].

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[Hidden polyteny in giant embryonic nuclei of Drosophila melanogaster gnu mutants].

Genetika - 1 May 1991

Mal'tseva N I, Kozlova T Iu, Zhimulev I F

Abstract excerpt

Drosophila melanogaster embryos, whose mothers are homozygous for the gnu (a recessive lethal mutation with maternal effect) undergo DNA synthesis but are defective in nuclear division. This leads to formation of giant nuclei in the syncytial blastoderm. The interior spatial chromatin organizatio...

Topics

Animals
Cell Nucleus
Chromosomes
DNA
Drosophila melanogaster
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Female
Genes, Lethal
Genes, Recessive
Homozygote
Mutation
Temperature

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