Genetic variation in a modifier system affecting the expression of bare mutant of Drosophila subobscura.

doi:10.1038/hdy.1990.7

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Genetic variation in a modifier system affecting the expression of bare mutant of Drosophila subobscura.

Heredity - 1 Feb 1990

Alvarez G, Martínez P, Zapata C

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Genetic variation affecting the expression of Bare (Ba), a morphological mutant of Drosophila subobscura that reduces the number of bristles and is located on the O chromosome of this species, is reported. Our results show that O chromosomes extracted from a natural population (El Pedroso, Santia...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Drosophila
Gene Expression Regulation
Genetic Variation
Normal Distribution

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