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Cytogenetic analysis of the 2B3-4 — 2B11 region of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster

III. Puffing disturbance in salivary gland chromosomes of homozygotes for mutation l(1)pp1 t10

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Puffing patterns have been studied both in homozygotes t10/t10, a gene located in the area of the early ecdysone puff 2B5, and in a yellow (y) control stock, at the end of the third instar and during prepupal development. In mutants t10 at the end of the third instar puffing develops normally in general, however, 21 puffs (5 early and 16 late ones) underdevelop or do not develop at all, some larval intermoult puffs regressing slower. The next cycle of puffs (mid prepupal) in mutants t10 proceeds normally, but in the late prepupal cycle 21 puffs underdevelop again or are not formed at all. A model for the induction of early ecdysone puffs is proposed, assigning a key role to the 2B5 puff product in stimulating other early puffs. It is suggested that defects in the activity of early puffs in the mutant t10 may cause underdevelopment of late puffs.

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  1. Siberian Division of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 630090, Novosibirsk, USSR

    I. F. Zhimulev, I. E. Vlassova & E. S. Belyaeva

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Dedicated to Professor W. Beermann on the occasion of his 60th birthday

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Zhimulev, I.F., Vlassova, I.E. & Belyaeva, E.S. Cytogenetic analysis of the 2B3-4 — 2B11 region of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster . Chromosoma 85, 659–672 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330779

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