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Cell Lineage Analyses and Gene Function Studies Using Twin-spot MARCM
Published on: March 2, 2017
The twin spot generator for differential Drosophila lineage analysis
Ruth Griffin1, Anne Sustar, Marianne Bonvin
1Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France. rgriffin@receptor.med.harvard.edu
Abstract:
In Drosophila melanogaster, widely used mitotic recombination-based strategies generate mosaic flies with positive readout for only one daughter cell after division. To differentially label both daughter cells, we developed the twin spot generator (TSG) technique, which through mitotic recombination generates green and red twin spots that are detectable after the first cell division as single cells. We propose wide applications of TSG to lineage and genetic mosaic studies.
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