Article
Autonomous transposition of gypsy mobile elements and genetic instability in Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Nov 1990
Kim A I, Belyaeva E S, Aslanian M M
Abstract excerpt
The laboratory mutator strain (MS) of Drosophila melanogaster is characterized by an elevated frequency of spontaneous mutation (10(-3)-10(-4). Mutations occur in both sexes at premeiotic stages of germ cell development. The increased mutability is a characteristic feature of MS itself, since it...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Male
- Mutation
- Species Specificity
- X Chromosome