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TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT EXPRESSION OF THE APTEROUS PHENOTYPE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Mary E. Stevens 1 and Peter J. Bryant 1
1 Developmental Biology Center and Department of Developmental
and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92717
Mutations at the apterous (ap) locus in Drosophila melanogaster produce a variety of developmental defects, including several classes of wing abnormalities. We describe the wing phenotype produced by homozygotes and hemizygotes of three different temperature-sensitive apterous alleles grown at 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, and 29°. We also describe the phenotype produced by each of these three alleles when heteroallelic with the non-temperature-sensitive apc allele. Constant-temperature and temperature-shift experiments show that each of the heteroallelic genotypes can produce several of the previously described apterous phenotypes and that the length of the temperature-sensitive period for a given phenotype depends on the allelic combinations used to measure it. We suggest that the stage-specific requirements of the tissue for gene product, rather than the time of gene expression per se, determine the temperature-sensitive periods for apterous and other loci. The results support the hypothesis that the various wing phenotypes produced by apterous mutations are due to quantitative reductions in the activity of gene product and that failure to meet specific threshold requirements for gene product can lead to qualitatively different phenotypes.
Submitted on February 1, 1985Accepted on September 25, 1985
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