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Early developmental subdivisions of the wing disk in Drosophila

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The properties of the mutation wingless discovered by Sharma are discussed. It appears that this mutation interferes with a step leading to normal wing-notum compartmentation of the wing disk. From the study of mutational mosaics in the wingless locus we conclude that mutations in this gene can be autonomous in mosaics.

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Babu, P. Early developmental subdivisions of the wing disk in Drosophila . Molec. Gen. Genet. 151, 289–294 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268792

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