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quemao, a Drosophila bristle locus, encodes geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase.
Genetics - 1 Jun 1998
Lai C, McMahon R, Young C, Mackay T F, Langley C H
Abstract excerpt
The quemao (qm) locus of Drosophila melanogaster is characterized by a P-element-associated mutant lacking most of the large bristles on the thorax and by several EMS-induced recessive lethals. quemao was cloned using a transposon tagging strategy. P-element-mediated transformation demonstrated that the cloned qm DNA sequence (from the 65F cytological region) rescues the mutant phenotype. A 2.3-kb qm transcript...
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