Date of Award:
5-1-1962
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Biology
Department name when degree awarded
Zoology
Committee Chair(s)
Eldon J. Gardner
Committee
Eldon J. Gardner
Committee
Datus M. Hammond
Committee
Keith L. Dixon
Committee
W. S. Boyle
Committee
Harris O. Van Orden
Abstract
A large number of flies expressing an eye abnormality was observed during the sunmer of 1960 in a "wild" Cockaponsett stock. A review of environmental conditions showed that the temperature had risen to 30 C on several days before the abnormal eyes were detected. Some of the abnormalities resembled certain expressions of known mutants such as lobe and tumorous head. Lobe eyes are reduced and flattened anteriorly, whereas the new abnormal eye is not usually reduced, but is flattened ventrally. The tumorous head phenotype is characterized by abnormal growths in the entire head region, but the new abnormality is usually restricted to the eyes.
Recommended Citation
Hansen, Afton M., "Genetic and Physiological Mechanisms Associated With Certain Eye Mutants in Drosophila melanogaster" (1962). Biology. 194.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd_biology/194
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