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SUBMITTER: Araye Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4049851 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul-Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Araye Quenta Q Sawamura Kyoichi K
Fly 20130506 3
Theoretical considerations predict that balancer chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster should accumulate numerous deleterious mutations with time. We counted the number of recessive lethal mutations on two balancer chromosomes from the In(2LR)SM1/In(2LR)Pm strain maintained in our lab, after making the balancers heterozygous with deficiencies from second-chromosome Kyoto Deficiency kit strains. We detected 10 recessive lethal mutations in the balancer In(2LR)Pm, which is consistent with the mut ...[more]