 A database of Drosophila nomenclature |
archipelago
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| Story: | The name was inspired by the ago phenotype in adult eye clones. Mutant clones have reduced numbers of photorecpetors and increased numbers of interommatidial cells. As a result, the rhabdomere clusters look like lonely little islands of cells in a sea of interommatidial tissue, hence the name. | ||
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| Contributor: | Ken Moberg | ||
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