Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the genetics of cell division in Drosophila and the effect of different alterations in cell division on Drosophila development. Drosophila developmental genetics accommodate many old-fashioned techniques that should be routinely used to complement the knowledge of mitotic genes and their function. For many reasons, Drosophila has occupied a privileged position as a model system for genetics in the reduced historical time scale. It also occupies a privileged position in the evolutionary time scale. Many of the future relevant findings on the genetic control of cell division will come from the laboratories working with fruit flies, and these findings will be extrapolated with ease to other eukaryotes, including humans. The chapter elaborates on the effect of mitotic mutations on embryonic development, mitosis during postembryonic development, and tubulin and kinesin gene families.
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