Double or nothing: a Drosophila mutation affecting meiotic chromosome segregation in both females and males.

doi:10.1093/genetics/136.3.953

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Double or nothing: a Drosophila mutation affecting meiotic chromosome segregation in both females and males.

Genetics - 1 Mar 1994

Moore D P, Miyazaki W Y, Tomkiel J E, Orr-Weaver T L

Abstract excerpt

We describe a Drosophila mutation, Double or nothing (Dub), that causes meiotic nondisjunction in a conditional, dominant manner. Previously isolated mutations in Drosophila specifically affect meiosis either in females or males, with the exception of the mei-S332 and ord genes which are required...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Cell Death
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genes, Dominant
Genes, Insect
Genes, Lethal
Genes, Recessive
Homozygote
Male
Meiosis
Mutation
Phenotype
Recombination, Genetic
Sex Characteristics

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