Mitomycin C induces genomic rearrangements involving transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1007/BF00260486

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Mitomycin C induces genomic rearrangements involving transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Jan 1990

Georgiev P G, Korochkina S E, Georgieva S G, Gerasimova T I

Abstract excerpt

Mitomycin C was injected into the abdomen of male flies of the y2 sc1 waG strain of Drosophila melanogaster. They were mated with females bearing attached-X chromosomes, and the male offspring (F1) were analysed for the appearance of mutations in the X chromosome. We observed y+ and sc+ reversion...

Topics

Animals
Blotting, Southern
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Gene Rearrangement
Male
Mitomycin
Mitomycins
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic
Restriction Mapping
X Chromosome

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