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Expression of 93D heat shock puff of Drosophila melanogaster in deficiency genotypes and its influence on activity of the 87C puff
(Springer-Verlag, 1986) Pradeep Kumar Burma; S.C. Lakhotia
Using the overlapping deficiencies Df(3R)GC14 and Df(3R)eGp4 of the 93D region of Drosophila melanogaster, the benzamide (BM)-inducible site in polytene chromsomes was localised to the 93D6-7 region, which had earlier been identified as heat inducible. The normal developmental and BM-induced 93D6-7 puff was found to be dosage compensated since in larvae heterozygotus for a deficiency, with one dose of 93D6-7, the rate of 3H-uridine incorporation in this puff was the same as in the wild type with two doses. Curiously, however, heat shock (37° C) caused regression of the 93D6-7 puff on the normal chromosome in heterozygotes. In agreement with earlier results from our laboratory, the non-inducibility of the single-dose 93D locus by heat shock in the heterozygotes, caused the 87C puff to be nearly half as active as the 87A puff at 37° C. However, in eGp4/GC14 larvae, lacking the 93D6-7 locus on both homologues, the 87C puff was less active than 87A in some heat-shocked larvae but in other larvae 87A and 87C were equally active. Possible reasons for this inter-larval variability are discussed. © 1986 Springer-Verlag.