An Hsp70 promoter drives expression of a Ubx gene carrying an N terminal deletion from amino acid 2 to amino acid 226.
lethal - all die during embryonic stage | heat sensitive
some die during embryonic stage | heat sensitive
antenna | heat sensitive
head | heat sensitive
parasegment 1 | embryonic stage | heat sensitive
parasegment 2 | embryonic stage | heat sensitive
parasegment 3 | embryonic stage | heat sensitive
parasegment 4 | embryonic stage | heat sensitive
parasegment 5 | embryonic stage | heat sensitive
Heat induction greater than 10 minutes causes transformation of thoracic parasegments into copies of parasegment 6. Head parasegments are weakly transformed. Weak transformations of antennae to legs after heat induction 72 hours after egg laying.