A temperature-sensitive mutant affecting the process of chorion gene amplification in Drosophila melanogaster.
K575 is a temperature-sensitive female sterile mutant which shows abnormal chorion structure and subnormal amounts of the major chorion proteins at the restrictive temperature. These phenotypes apparently result from a temperature-sensitive defect in amplification. Both clusters of chorion genes are affected, indicating that the gene operates in trans.
D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D004528:Egg Shell; D005260:Female; D005784:Gene Amplification; D005796:Genes; D009154:Mutation; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D013696:Temperature; D014960:X Chromosome
D011506:Proteins