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Puffing patterns of chromosome arm 3 L of D. yakuba are compared with those of other members of the melanogaster species subgroup D. melanogaster and D. simulans. Several paracentric inversions on 3L have resulted in a considerable rearrangement of gene order in D. yakuba. However the basic sequence of changes in puffing activity which occurs during late larval and prepupal development is very similar to that of D. melanogaster and D. simulans. A fourth member of this species subgroup (D. teissieri) also has similar puffing patterns to those of D. melanogaster despite considerable chromosome evolution.
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Ashburner, M., Lemeunier, F. Patterns of puffing activity in the salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila . Chromosoma 38, 283–295 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290926
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