NOTCH-8 [N8]
Lindsley & Grell, 1972, p. 170
origin: Spontaneous.
discoverer: Mohr, 18j7.
references: 1919, Genetics 4: 275-82. 1923, Z. Induktive Abstammungs- Vererbungslehre 32: 108-232 (fig.). 1932, Proc. Intern. Congr. Genet., 6th. Vol. 1: 190-212. Mackensen, 1935, J. Heredity 26: 163-74. Gottschewski, 1937, Z. Induktive Abstammungs-Vererbungslehre 73: 131-42. Slizynska, 1938, Genetics 23: 291-99.
phenotype: Typical Notch. Hemizygous male lethal in egg (Li, 1927, Genetics 12: 1-58). Nervous system hypertrophied; ventral and cephalic hypoderm missing; mesodermal organs absent; fore-gut rudimentary, and mid-gut incomplete [Poulson, 1940, J. Exptl. Zool. 83: 271-325 (fig.); 1941, Proc. Intern. Congr. Genet., 7th. pp. 240-41]. Cholinesterase activity higher in N8 than in normal embryos (Poulson and Boell, 1946, Biol. Bull. 91: 228; 1946, Anat. Record 96: 508). RK1A.
cytology: Associated with Df(1)N8 = Df(1)3B4-C1;3D6-E1.
color figure: P. A. Otto (original)
b & w figure: Mohr, 1924, Z. Induktive Abstammungs-Vererbungslehre 32: 118.