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GENETICS OF GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS (DIPTERA: GLOSSINIDAE): III. SALMON, A SEX-LINKED, MATERNALLY INFLUENCED, SEMI-LETHAL EYE COLOR MUTANT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. H. Gooding
R. H. Gooding
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3
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Abstract

A visible mutation with salmon-colored eyes was found in our colony of Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood. The trait, designated salmon (sal), is a recessive controlled by an X-chromosome locus which is at least 36 map units from ocra. Adults emerged from less than 20% of the puparia obtained by mating females homozygous for salmon with the hemizygous salmon males; these flies have very pale eyes and die at an early age. The mutant is genetically rescuable since females homozygous for salmon mated with wild-type males produced the normal number of phenotypically wild-type female offspring and about 32% of the expected number of male offspring; the males have very pale eyes.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 5 , May 1979 , pp. 557 - 560
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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