Article
string of pearls encodes Drosophila ribosomal protein S2, has Minute-like characteristics, and is required during oogenesis.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1994
Cramton S E, Laski F A
Abstract excerpt
The first allele of string of pearls (sop) was isolated as a recessive female sterile mutant in a P element enhancer trap screen. Oogenesis in homozygous sop females arrests at approximately stage 5. In addition, homozygous flies of both sexes have Minute-like characteristics that include reduced...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Genes, Insect
- Genes, Recessive
- Infertility, Female
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oogenesis
- Phenotype