title: How the fruit fly changed (some of) its spots.
abstract: Recent results show that the establishment of wing melanization patterns in Drosophila depends on the veins. While several genes have been shown to play a role in melanization, changes in a single gene - the one encoding tyrosine hydroxylase - are sufficient to generate novel pigmentation patterns.
authors.affiliation: Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York 10024, USA.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: O'Grady
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: DeSalle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D014921:Wings, Animal