Fly pushing : the theory and practice of Drosophila genetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenspan, Ralph J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2004]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The basics of doing a cross
  • Fly chromosomes
  • Recognizing markers
  • Nomenclature
  • Evolution of gene names
  • What makes flies so great? Balancer chromosomes
  • Deciphering mating schemes
  • Basic fly husbandry
  • Coddling difficult strains
  • Collecting flies for crosses
  • Isolating new variants
  • Principles
  • Mutagens
  • Ethylmethanesulfonate
  • Ethylnitrosourea
  • Radiation
  • Insertional mutagenesis
  • Genetic schemes for detecting mutants
  • New alleles at an autosomal locus
  • New alleles on the X
  • Identifying new genes by mutagenesis
  • Isogenizing the starter stock
  • The mutagenesis screen
  • Screening the X for new genes
  • Insertional mutagenesis and enhancer trapping
  • Enhancer-trap screens
  • New insertional alleles of known loci
  • Mutating genes for which there are no allelic differences
  • Screening over a deletion of the locus
  • Targeted insertional mutagenesis
  • Homologous recombination
  • RNA interference
  • Searching for gain of function
  • Generating mutants : one size does not fit all
  • Mapping
  • Segregation analysis
  • Problems with balancers
  • Meiotic mapping
  • Deletion mapping
  • Duplication mapping
  • Synthesizing deletions and duplications
  • Identifying new embryonic genes by deletion mapping
  • Mapping P-element insertion sites
  • Fine-grain traditional meiotic mapping with P-element markers
  • Mapping by P-element-induced male recombination
  • Fine-grain mapping by transposon induced deletions
  • Mapping by DNA polymorphisms
  • Synthesizing specific genotypes
  • Principles
  • Simple manipulations of a single chromosome
  • Linking mutations
  • Manipulating two chromosomes
  • Pitfalls
  • How many flies?
  • Which sex?
  • Manipulating three chromosomes
  • Making rearrangements
  • Inducing deletions
  • Synthesizing stable deletions from T(Y;A)s
  • Synthesizing deletions from P-element insertions
  • Inducing duplications
  • Synthesizing stable duplications from T(Y;A)s
  • Synthesizing attached-Xs
  • Autosynaptic chromosomes and the joys of gibberish
  • Analysis of mutations : I. characteristics of the allele
  • Formal classification of mutations
  • Principles
  • Null alleles (amorphs)
  • Hypomorphs
  • Hypermorphs
  • Neomorphs
  • Antimorphs
  • Gain versus loss of function
  • Intragenic interactions
  • Interacting loci
  • Ordering genes in a pathway
  • Dosage-dependent interactions
  • Conditional alleles
  • Inducible promoters
  • Maintenance of mutant phenotypes
  • Genetic background
  • Analysis of mutations : II. mosaics
  • Principles
  • Chromosome loss
  • Uses of chromosome loss mosaics
  • Fate mapping
  • Focus of gene action
  • Methods for inducing chromosome loss
  • Ring loss
  • Chromosome loss mosaics for autosomal genes
  • paternal-loss (pal)
  • claret-non-disjunctional (cand)
  • Care of mosaic-producing stocks
  • Mitotic recombination
  • Synchronizing age of cultures
  • Uses of mitotic recombination mosaics
  • Lineage analysis
  • Focus of gene action
  • Time of gene action
  • Methods for producing mitotic recombinant clones
  • Markers for internal tissues
  • GAL4 and expression mosaicism
  • Cell ablations
  • GAL4 targeted FLP/FRT recombination
  • Isolating tissue-targeted mutations using mitotic recombination
  • P-element replacement for exploitation of existing enhancer traps
  • Commencement
  • Solutions to problems
  • Glossary
  • Appendix : Fly resources