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Clonal analysis of segmental and compartmental homoeotic transformations in polycomb mutants of Drosophila melanogaster.
Developmental biology - 1 Oct 1990
Tiong S Y, Russell M A
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We describe two new effects of Polycomb mutations on the determination of compartments in the wing of Drosophila. Ventral and posterior wing compartments are transformed partially to their dorsal and anterior counterparts. Although these new phenotypes are most strongly expressed in lethal pharate adults heteroallelic for Pc2 and a new allele PcT2, they are also found regularly but with low expressivity as...
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