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A cytological analysis of the Scutoid mutation of Drosophila melanogaster, and its induced revertants

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The Scutoid mutation of Drosophila melanogaster is associated with two small transpositions within region 35 of the polytene chromosome arm 2L. A number of induced revertants of Sco have been recovered and the majority of these are chromosome aberrations. The localisation of at least one breakpoint of these aberrant revertants to the proximal breakpoint of the proximal transposition of Sco, a breakpoint that juxtaposes two loci (noc and sna), normally separated by several loci is evidence that the Scutoid phenotype results from a fusion of noc and sna.

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    Michael Ashburner & Glynnis Harrington

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Ashburner, M., Harrington, G. A cytological analysis of the Scutoid mutation of Drosophila melanogaster, and its induced revertants. Chromosoma 89, 329–337 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331249

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