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Live-cell Imaging of Sensory Organ Precursor Cells in Intact Drosophila Pupae
Published on: May 27, 2011
Primary structure and expression of a product from cut, a locus involved in specifying sensory organ identity in
K Blochlinger1, R Bodmer, J Jack
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
Nature
|June 16, 1988
Abstract:
In the absence of cut gene activity in Drosophila, external sensory organs are transformed into chordotonal organs. Here we show that the cut locus encodes a large protein containing a homoeodomain and is expressed in nuclei of cells in external sensory organs but not in cells within chordotonal organs.

