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Several genetic loci have been implicated in the formation of the peripheral nervous system during Drosophila embryogenesis. As a first step towards understanding the functional interrelationships between these genes, we have searched for dominant interactions between deficiencies for the achaete-scute complex (AS-C), daughterless (da) and six other regions necessary for peripheral neurogenesis in the embryo. We have found that adult flies doubly heterozygous for deletions of AS-C and of da, or of AS-C and a small region on the fourth chromosome, exhibit characteristic bristle defects, suggesting that these genes cooperate to form sense organs both in the embryo and in the adult.
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Dambly-Chaudière, C., Ghysen, A., Jan, L.Y. et al. The determination of sense organs in Drosophila: interaction of scute with daughterless . Roux's Arch Dev Biol 197, 419–423 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398993
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