Effects of mutations at the stambh A locus of Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 83-95

  Kumar, M ^a   Joseph, Minu ^a   Chandrashekaran, Shanti ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cuticle loss; Drosophila melanogaster; Maternal effect; Stambh A

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HEAT; MALE; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; MALE; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035413669     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02728334     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Benzer S. 1967 Behavioral mutants of Drosophila isolated by counter current distribution. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 58, 1112-1119.
2. Campos-Ortega J. A. 1993 Early neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In The development of Drosophila melanogaster (ed. M. Bate and A. Martinez-Arias), pp. 1091-1130. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor.
3. Catterall W. A. 1986 Properties of voltage-sensitive sodium channels. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 55, 953-986.
4. Chandrashekaran S. 1993 Mutations at the stmA locus of Drosophila melanogaster confer resistance to the sodium channel neuropoison veratridine. Curr. Sci. 65, 80-82.
5. Chandrashekaran S. and Sarla N. 1993 Phenotypes of lethal alleles of ts paralytic mutant stmA of Drosophila melanogaster suggest its neurogenic function. Genetica 90, 61-71.
6. Dl) dominant female sterile insertions in Drosophila and their use in generating germ line chimaeras. Development 119, 1359-1369.
7. Gepner J., Li M., Ludmann S., Kortas C. and Boylan K. 1996 Cytoplasmic dynein function is essential in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 142, 865-878.
8. Grant D., Unadkat S., Katzen A., Krishnan K. S. and Ramaswami M. 1998 Probable mechanisms underlying interallelic complementation and temperature sensitivity of mutations at the shi locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 149, 1019-1030.
9. Hall J. C. 1982 Genetics of early neurogenesis in Drosophila. Quart. Rev. Biophys. 15, 223-479.
10. Heisenberg M. 1997 Genetic approach to neuroethology BioEssays 19, 1065-1073.
11. Kumar M. 1993 Genetic analysis of the 42A polytene chromosome section of Drosophila melanogaster. Ph.D. thesis, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
12. Lehmann R., Dietrich U., Jiminez F. and Campos-Ortega J. A., 1983 On the phenotype and development of mutants of early neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Roux's Arch. Dev Biol. 192, 62-74.
13. Loughney K., Kreber R. and Ganetzky B. 1989 Molecular analysis of the para locus, a sodium channel gene in Drosophila. Cell 58, 1 143-1154.
14. Poodry C. A. 1990 shibire, a neurogenic mutant of Drosophila. Dev. Biol. 138, 464-472.
15. Robertson H. M., Preston C. R., Phillis R. W., Johnson-Sclitz D. M., Benz W. K. and Engels W. R. 1988 A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics. 118, 461-470.
16. Ruohola H., Bremer K. A., Baker D., Swedlow J. R., Jan L. Y. and Jan Y. N. 1991 Role of neurogenic genes in establishment of follicle cell fate and oocyte polarity during oogenesis in Drosophila. Cell 66, 433-449.
17. Schrons H., Knust E. and Campos-Ortega J. A. 1992 The Enhancer of split complex and adjacent genes in the 96F region of Drosophila melanogaster are required for the segregation of neural and epidermal progenitor cells Genetics 132, 481-503.
18. Sepp K. J. and Auld V. J. 1999 Conversion of lacZ enhancer trap lines to Gal4 lines using targeted transposition in Drosophila. Genetics 151, 1093-1101.
19. Shyngle J. and Sharma R. P. 1985 Studies on paralysis and development of second chromosome ts paralytic mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 23, 235-240.
20. van der Meer J. 1977 Optical clean and permanent whole mount preparation for phase contrast microscopy of cuticular structure of insect larvae. Dros. Inf. Serv. 52, 160.