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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 bristles, delayed development and larval lethality. sop maps to 30D/E on chromosome 2L and encodes the Drosophila...
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