Dominant defects in Drosophila eye pigmentation resulting from a euchromatin-heterochromatin fusion gene.

doi:10.1093/genetics/150.4.1551

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Dominant defects in Drosophila eye pigmentation resulting from a euchromatin-heterochromatin fusion gene.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1998

Rong Y S, Golic K G

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We have isolated a dominant mutation, pugilistDominant (pugD), that causes variegated reductions in pteridine and ommochrome pigmentation of the Drosophila eye. The effect of pugD on pteridine pigmentation is most dramatic: the only remaining pigment consists of a thin ring of pigment around the...

Topics

Animals
Artificial Gene Fusion
Chromatin
Chromosome Mapping
Cloning, Molecular
Dinucleotide Repeats
Drosophila melanogaster
Euchromatin
Eye Color
Genes, Dominant
Genes, Insect
Heterochromatin
Mutation
Phenothiazines
Phenotype
Pigmentation
Protein Biosynthesis
Pteridines

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