The regulation of a pigmentation gene in the formation of complex color patterns in Drosophila abdomens
Komal Kumar Bollepogu Raja, Mujeeb Olushola Shittu, Peter M. E. Nouhan, Tessa E. Steenwinkel, Evan A. Bachman, Prajakta Paresh Kokate, Alexander H. McQueeney, Elizabeth A. Mundell, Alexandri A. Armentrout, Amber M. Nugent, Thomas Werner
The paper investigates the molecular mechanisms controlling the pigmentation gene yellow in Drosophila guttifera, showing that a single CRM orchestrates complex abdominal patterns through conserved regulatory elements and partial repression of ancestral stripe patterns.
PLoS ONE · Dec 19, 2022Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology