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Drosophila melanogaster misexpressing the gene tan in the pattern of the gene apterous and pannier
Drosophila melanogaster misexpressing the gene tan in the pattern of the gene apterous (top) and pannier (bottom), causing ectopic melanin to form in a dorsal stripe, and ebony (center two flies), causing melanization in a W pattern on the thorax. In the background, the Tan protein sequences from three different insects are aligned with a related protein from fungi that functions in penicillin biosynthesis. Characterization of tan clarifies several long-standing mysteries in the biology of melanin pigmentation and vision in insects (see True et al.).
Image Credit: Photograph provided by John True, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Cover design by Sapna Khandwala.
Citation: (2005) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 1(5) November 2005. PLoS Genet 1(5): ev01.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v01.i05
Published: November 25, 2005
Copyright: © 2005 True et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Drosophila melanogaster misexpressing the gene tan in the pattern of the gene apterous (top) and pannier (bottom), causing ectopic melanin to form in a dorsal stripe, and ebony (center two flies), causing melanization in a W pattern on the thorax. In the background, the Tan protein sequences from three different insects are aligned with a related protein from fungi that functions in penicillin biosynthesis. Characterization of tan clarifies several long-standing mysteries in the biology of melanin pigmentation and vision in insects (see True et al.).
Image Credit: Photograph provided by John True, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Cover design by Sapna Khandwala.