Date of Award:
5-1-1964
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
John R. Simmons
Committee
D. M. Hammond
Committee
W. S. Boyle
Committee
T. L. Bahler
Abstract
During experiments involving the addition of copper sulfate to the food medium (Turner, 1959) some files from the tu150/Cy strain of Drosophila melanogaster exhibited a structural eye abnormality. By inbreeding those flies a new mutant stock was developed. Edwards and Gardner (1962) designated the stock as eyes-reduced and located the major genetic factor (eyr) in the right arm of the third chromosome. The eyes-reduced stock possesses characteristics which are challenging to current theories in genetics and development; the purpose of this investigation was to thoroughly study those characteristics.
Recommended Citation
Edwards, James Wesley, "The Genetics of Abnormal Head Morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, With Special Reference to Eyelessness, Homoeosis, Penetrance, Asymmetry, and the "Fourth" Instar" (1964). Biology. 207.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd_biology/207
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