title: Detection of clones in the nervous system ofDrosophila melanogaster.
abstract: Mitotic recombination was induced, by X-irradiation at the blastoderm stage, in flies heterozygous for one of the temperature-sensitive paralytic mutationsshibire andtp-2. The results show that these mutations can be used to detect the presence of clones in the central nervous system through the temperature-sensitive paralysis of individual legs. Mitotic recombination can also be used to examine the effects of these mutations in the peripheral nervous system; shibire is thus shown to affect the function of sensory neurons.
authors.affiliation: Zoological Institute, University of Zürich, Künstlergasse 16, CH-8006, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Deak
keywords: Clones; Drosophila melanogaster; Nervous system; Shibire