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Genetic regulation and pattern formation: A study of the yellow locus in Drosophila melanogaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

William G. Nash  and
Rhoda J. Yarkin
William G. Nash
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20006
Rhoda J. Yarkin
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20006

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Many of the yellow alleles found in Drosophila melanogaster result in a unique pattern of phenotypic expression. These patterns follow the morphologically distinct cell types of the cuticle, so that for one allele all the bristles of the head and thorax might be mutant, while most of the fly appears wild type. A comparison of many different y mutants demonstrates that the yellow phenotype is expressed independently in most if not all the different cell types which form the cuticle. Control of this expression appears to reside at the yellow locus itself.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , August 1974 , pp. 19 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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