spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


spacer gif
     Home     Help     Feedback     Subscriptions     Archive     Search     Table of Contents    

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ueno, K.
Right arrow Articles by Suzuki, Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Ueno, K.
Right arrow Articles by Suzuki, Y.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Development, Vol 114, Issue 3 555-563, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Molecular analysis of the deletion mutants in the E homeotic complex of the silkworm Bombyx mori

K Ueno, CC Hui, M Fukuta and Y Suzuki
National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan.

The E loci in Bombyx mori are expected to contain a homeotic gene complex specifying the identities of the larval abdominal segments. However, the molecular structure of this complex remains to be determined. We have started to analyze the structural changes in the E complex mutations. We used three newly isolated Bombyx homeobox genes as probes. These genes are probably homologues of the Ultrabithorax (Ubx), abdominal-A (abd-A) and Abdominal-B (Abd-B) in the Drosophila bithorax complex, because the amino-acid sequences of the homeobox regions in these Bombyx genes are almost identical to those of Drosophila genes. We found that the Bombyx Ubx and abd-A genes are deleted in the EN chromosome, and the Bombyx abd-A gene is deleted in the ECa chromosome. From these results, we conclude that the Bombyx E complex consists of the Ubx, abd-A and possibly Abd-B genes, which may play similar roles to their homologues in the Drosophila bithorax complex.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J. Biol. Chem.Home page
K. Ueno and Y. Suzuki
p260/270 Expressed in Embryonic Abdominal Leg Cells of Bombyx mori Can Transfer Palmitate to Peptides
J. Biol. Chem., May 23, 1997; 272(21): 13519 - 13526.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
D. E. K. Ferrier and M. Akam
Organization of the Hox gene cluster in the grasshopper, Schistocerca gregaria
PNAS, November 12, 1996; 93(23): 13024 - 13029.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 DevelopmentHome page
R Dawes, I Dawson, F Falciani, G Tear, and M Akam
Dax, a locust Hox gene related to fushi-tarazu but showing no pair-rule expression
Development, January 6, 1994; 120(6): 1561 - 1572.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Genes Dev.Home page
S K Chan and R S Mann
The segment identity functions of Ultrabithorax are contained within its homeo domain and carboxy-terminal sequences.
Genes & Dev., May 1, 1993; 7(5): 796 - 811.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 DevelopmentHome page
J. J. Stuart, S. J. Brown, R. W. Beeman, and R. E. Denell
The Tribolium homeotic gene Abdominal is homologous to abdominal-A of the Drosophila bithorax complex
Development, January 1, 1993; 117(1): 233 - 243.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 DevelopmentHome page
R. Kelsh, I. Dawson, and M. Akam
An analysis of abdominal-B expression in the locust Schistocerca gregaria
Development, January 1, 1993; 117(1): 293 - 305.
[Abstract] [PDF]


© The Company of Biologists Ltd 1992