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iroquois: a prepattern gene that controls the formation of bristles on the thorax of Drosophila.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Sept 1996
Leyns L, Gómez-Skarmeta J L, Dambly-Chaudière C
Abstract excerpt
We have isolated a Drosophila mutant where the lateral parts of the notum are completely naked, leaving unaffected a median stripe of hairs. This mutation, iroquois (iro), defines a new gene which maps at 69D. We show that, in the presumptive lateral notum of mutant discs, sense organ precursor cells fail to form and the proneural gene scute is not expressed. The expression of a reporter gene inserted near iro...
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