A new homeotic mutation in the Drosophila bithorax complex removes a boundary separating two domains of regulation.

doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1990.tb07439.x

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A new homeotic mutation in the Drosophila bithorax complex removes a boundary separating two domains of regulation.

The EMBO journal - 1 Aug 1990

Gyurkovics H, Gausz J, Kummer J, Karch F

Abstract excerpt

The bithorax complex specifies the identity of parasegments 5-14 of Drosophila. Although nine parasegment-specific functions, abx/bx, bxd/pbx and iab-2 to iab-8,9 have been identified, the whole bithorax complex appears to encode only three classes of proteins, Ubx, abd-A and Abd-B. Many observat...

Topics

Animals
Blotting, Southern
Chromosome Mapping
Crosses, Genetic
DNA
Drosophila
Female
Gene Expression Regulation
Genes, Homeobox
Genotype
Larva
Male
Mutation

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