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Development, Vol 101, Issue 1 135-142, Copyright © 1987 by Company of Biologists
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SY Tiong, JR Whittle and MC Gribbin
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
We have examined the developmental consequences for larval and imaginal segmental cuticular structure of a chromosomal translocation involving a breakpoint in the abdominal region of the bithorax complex (BX-C). This complex makes an essential contribution to the development of metameric differences in part of the thorax and in all abdominal segments. The breakpoint is proximal to the most distal (iab-7) homeobox, and results in the translocation to the Y chromosome of the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) and abdominal-A (abd-A) domains. The genotype deficient for the distal part of the complex shows normal function for Ubx and abd-A but has a phenotype typical for severe Abd-B mutations. Conversely, the distal fragment retains a segment identity function which must represent a contribution from Abd-B in parasegments 13 and 14; the latter metamere is wild type, indicating that it does not require the contribution of Ubx or abd-A. We also constructed a genotype comprising the proximal fragment of this translocation together with an overlapping distal fragment of the BX-C derived from Df(3R)Ubx109. It therefore contained all sequences of the BX-C though in the abdominal region the abd-A and Abd-B domains were not adjacent to each other in the chromosome. This genotype was phenotypically normal and demonstrates that DNA sequences in the abd-A and Abd-B regions do not require cis-arrangement for their activity.
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