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GENETICS
Volume 204, Issue 4, Pages 1369-1375Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.196519
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education; Drosophila; pleiotropy; behavior
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A single gene might have several functions within an organism, and so mutational loss of that gene has multiple effects across different physiological systems in the organism. Though the white gene in Drosophila melanogaster was identified originally for its effect on fly eye color, an article by Xiao and Robertson in the June 2016 issue of GENETICS describes a function for the white gene in the response of Drosophila to oxygen deprivation. This Primer article provides background information on the white gene, the phenomenon of pleiotropy, and the molecular and genetic approaches used in the study to demonstrate a new behavioral function for the white gene.
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