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• A third group, which includes a component of the Brahma chromatin remodeling complex encoded by moira, affects the level of Cut expression in two opposing ways by suppressing the gypsy-mediated ct(K) phenotype and enhancing the non-gypsy ct(53d) phenotype [1].
• Products of two of these genes, sallimus and moira, have been previously proposed as homeotic activators since they suppress the dominant adult phenotype of Polycomb mutants [2].
• The Drosophila homeotic gene moira regulates expression of engrailed and HOM genes in imaginal tissues [3].
• moira is a member of the trithorax group of homeotic gene regulators in Drosophila melanogaster [3].
• The abnormalities caused by the loss of moira function in germ cells suggests that at least one other target gene requires moira for normal oogenesis [3].

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