Date of Award:
5-1-1962
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Biology
Department name when degree awarded
Zoology
Committee Chair(s)
Afton M. Hansen
Committee
Eldon J. Gardner
Committee
D. M. Hammond
Committee
Paul B. Carter
Committee
Thomas L. Bahler
Abstract
During experiments involving the addition of copper sulfate to the food medium (Turner, 1959), some flies from the tu150/Cy strain of Drosophila melanogaster exhibited a structural eye abnormality. By inbreeding those flies a new mutant stock was developed. Phenotypically the flies of this new stock resembled the established fourth chromosome eyeless mutants of D. melanogaster, and the new mutant was tentatively designated as eyeless-prime (ey'). Turner described the morphology of ey', and he also superficially investigated the genetic basis of the trait. The purpose of this investigation was to locate the genes associated with the trait and to study in more detail the genetic mechanism and phenotypic expression.
Recommended Citation
Edwards, James W., "Phenotypic Expression and Genetic Analysis of a New Drosophila melanogaster Mutant (Eyes-Reduced) Exhibiting a Structural Eye Abnormality" (1962). Biology. 88.
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