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Functional diversity within the rudimentary locus of Drosophila melanogaster

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The rudimentary locus of Drosophila melanogaster is shown to be at least bifunctional. Mutants in different regions of the locus have either no CPSase or no ATCase activity; some mutants lack both activities. The results are discussed in correlation with the complementation and genetic map of the locus.

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  1. Department of Zoology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    Bruno Jarry & Darrel Falk (National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow)

  2. Centre de Biologie Moleculaire, CNRS, 31 chemin J. Aiguier, 13274, Marseille Cedex 2, France

    Bruno Jarry

  3. Center for Pathobiology, University of California, 92664, Irvine, California, USA

    Darrel Falk (National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow)

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Communicated by E. Hadorn

Supported by National Research Council of Canada, grant A-1764 and National Cancer Institute of Canada, grant 6051 to D. T. Suzuki.

Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France and recipient of European Molecular Biology Organization Fellowship.

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Jarry, B., Falk, D. Functional diversity within the rudimentary locus of Drosophila melanogaster . Molec. Gen. Genet. 135, 113–122 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264779

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