COUPLED INSTABILITY OF TWO X-LINKED GENES IN DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA: GERMINAL AND SOMATIC MUTABILITY
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- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 111 (1) , 57-65
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/111.1.57
Abstract
A highly unstable allele has been isolated at the white locus of Drosophila mauritiana, a sibling species of D. melanogaster. This allele, white-peach (wpch), mutates spontaneously in males and females to give both wild-type and bleached-white derivatives. The mutation frequency is about 10-3 mutations/generation. There is no evidence for clustering among mutant progeny, and phenotypically wpch flies with mosaic patches of wild-type tissue in the eyes are frequently recovered. Another X-linked locus, plum, is destabilized when wpch is on the same X chromosome.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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