Recovery of a marked translocation strain that will facilitate the isolation of balancer chromosomes in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata

Genome

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 256-265

  Gubb, D ^a,d   Zacharopoulou, A ^b   Livadaras, Y ^a   Gourzi, P ^b   Roote, J ^a,d   Savakis, C ^a,c,d  

^a Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominantly marked translocation; Medfly; Somatic mosaic; Variegation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DROSOPHILA; ISOLATION; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSLOCATION LINE;

CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA;

EID: 0032052405     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/gen-41-2-256     Document Type: Article

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