TY - JOUR
T1 - Scrimpy-eye, a sex-linked mutant in the Aedes scutellaris complex of mosquitoes
AU - Trpis, Milan
N1 - Funding Information:
The author is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. Laboratories of Medical Entomology, Baltimore, Maryland 21205. This study was supported in part by NIH research grant no. AI 13396.
PY - 1979/1
Y1 - 1979/1
N2 - Scrimpy-eye is a mutant in the Aedes scutellaris complex of mosquitoes. The mutation, which is detectable in larval, pupal, and adult stages, affects color, size, and structure of the compound eyes in Aedes cooki. The eyes are light brown in color and only one-third as large as the eyes of wild-type mosquitoes. The ommatidia are irregular in shape and size, the cornea is fuzzy and inner structure of individual ommatidia is strongly modified. Penetrance is complete and expressivity variable. Most of the mutant individuals fly in a waltzy motion. The scrimpy-eye character is controlled by a single recessive gene located on the sex chromosome. The linkage distance between the sy locus and the sex locus estimated from the crossover data from both F2 and backcrosses is 2.5 ± 0.5 map units.
AB - Scrimpy-eye is a mutant in the Aedes scutellaris complex of mosquitoes. The mutation, which is detectable in larval, pupal, and adult stages, affects color, size, and structure of the compound eyes in Aedes cooki. The eyes are light brown in color and only one-third as large as the eyes of wild-type mosquitoes. The ommatidia are irregular in shape and size, the cornea is fuzzy and inner structure of individual ommatidia is strongly modified. Penetrance is complete and expressivity variable. Most of the mutant individuals fly in a waltzy motion. The scrimpy-eye character is controlled by a single recessive gene located on the sex chromosome. The linkage distance between the sy locus and the sex locus estimated from the crossover data from both F2 and backcrosses is 2.5 ± 0.5 map units.
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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109189
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109189
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957210984
SN - 0022-1503
VL - 70
SP - 51
EP - 56
JO - Journal of Heredity
JF - Journal of Heredity
IS - 1
ER -