Germ line and somatic instability of a white mutation in Drosophila mauritiana due to a transposable genetic element
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Genetics
- Vol. 6 (4), 281-291
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dvg.1020060406
Abstract
A spontaneous white mutation recovered in Drosophila mauritiana is unstable and reverts to normal eye color at a frequency greater than 4 per 1,000 ×-chromosomes. Germ line reversion occurs at a high rate in D. mauritiana males and in interspecific hybrid females, while the rate is depressed in D. mauritiana females. These events are not restricted to the germ line, as cases of variegated patterns of eye pigmentation, indicating somatic reversion, are recovered at a frequency comparable to that of the male germ line reversion rate. Germ line reversion events are genetically stable, while the somatic variegation patterns are not heritable. The patterns of eye pigment variegation produced suggests that reversion events are occurring throughout development. Whole genome DNA digests blotted and probed with the cloned D. melanogaster white gene indicate that this unstable white mutation in D. mauritiana is associated with an insertion of DNA that is lost upon reversion to wild type, indicating that this DNA insert is in fact a transposable element.Keywords
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