Thomas J B, Wyman R J
Dev Biol. 1984 Apr;102(2):531-3. doi: 10.1016/0012-1606(84)90222-7.
The bithorax complex (BX-C) of genes in Drosophila control the segmental identity of the thoracic and abdominal cuticle. In flies containing BX-C mutations causing meta- to mesothoracic transformation, the mesothoracic branching pattern of a well-studied identified neuron is faithfully duplicated in the metathoracic ganglion. Thus these mutations also cause the duplication of mesothoracic cues involved in this neuron's branching.
果蝇中的双胸复合体（BX-C）基因控制着胸部和腹部表皮的节段特征。在含有导致中胸到后胸转变的BX-C突变的果蝇中，一个经过充分研究的已鉴定神经元的中胸分支模式在后胸神经节中被如实地复制。因此，这些突变也导致了参与该神经元分支的中胸信号的重复。
