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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-19
pubmed:abstractText
A large proportion of spontaneous mutations in Drosophila melanogaster strains of laboratory origin are associated with insertions of mobile DNA elements. As a first step toward determining whether spontaneous laboratory mutations are predictive for mutational events occurring in the wild, recessive brown (bw) eye color mutants were isolated. By inbreeding the progeny of wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster females, bw mutations were isolated from seven separate geographic sites distributed among Japan, California. Siberia and Hungary. Among a total of 14 mutations studied, no case of transposon mutagenesis was found. At least 4 mutations are associated with small deletions in the bw gene. The remainder are inseparable from wild-type bw by Southern analysis and are presumed to be basepair changes or very small indels. Although only two spontaneous bw mutants of laboratory origin have been analyzed molecularly, one is a mobile element insertion.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0026-8925
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
247
pubmed:geneSymbol
bw
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
164-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
The molecular analysis of brown eye color mutations isolated from geographically discrete populations of Drosophila melanogaster.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't