THE INHERITANCE OF ROSE EYE, A SEX LINKED MUTANT IN THE MALARIA VECTOR ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES

1 December 1977

journal article
research article
Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology

Vol. 19 (4) , 633-636
https://doi.org/10.1139/g77-067

Abstract

A mutant, rose eye (re) in which both the ocellus and compound eye are a bright rose, was discovered following treatment of A. culicifacies with 0.005 M ethyl methanesulfonate. In females this locus is sex linked and recessive, while males are hemizygous for this locus. Sex in this species is determined by a chromosome mechanism, wherein the females are XX and the males XY.