(1) Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, (Spain);(2) Present address: Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, (Spain)
Abstract:
Summary The previously detected modifier variability acting on the expression of the Bare (Ba) locus inDrosophila subobscura is demonstrated to be due to polygenes situated along the chromosome O. From crosses between isogenic lines of high and low modifier effect we ascertained the presence of approximately 5 modifier loci.We are grateful to Dr M. Green for valuable comments on the experimental design used in this paper.