Duplicated neural structure in bithorax mutant Drosophila.
The bithorax complex (BX-C) of genes in Drosophila control the segmental identity of the thoracic and abdominal cuticle. In flies containing BX-C mutations causing meta- to mesothoracic transformation, the mesothoracic branching pattern of a well-studied identified neuron is faithfully duplicated in the metathoracic ganglion. Thus these mutations also cause the duplication of mesothoracic cues involved in this neuron's branching.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000294:innervation; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004330:Drosophila / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000235:genetics; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007546:Isoquinolines; D009154:Mutation; D009474:Neurons / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013909:Thorax / Q000294:innervation
D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007546:Isoquinolines; C017475:lucifer yellow