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Genetic studies on mutations in species A and B of the Anopheles gambiae complex*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

G. F. Mason
G. F. Mason
Affiliation:
Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, London, W.C.1
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1. A number of mutants affecting changes in the pigment of larval and adult An. gambiae are reported.

2. Two other pigment characters are also described. One of these, diamond, is probably inherited as a single factor.

3. Two of the mutants are sex-linked and the experimental results show An. gambiae to have a Drosophila form of sex-linkage.

4. The sex-linked white-eye mutant is shown to be epistatic to the gene for collar and the characters diamond and red stripe.

5. Attention is drawn to the difference in sex-linkage between An. gambiae, and C. pipiens and Ae. aegypti which may indicate different methods of sex-determination.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , December 1967 , pp. 205 - 217
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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