AMYLASE ISOZYMES IN THE MOSQUITO, CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS

Abstract
A survey of laboratory stocks of C. tritaeniorhynchus Giles revealed the presence of 4 electrophoretic variants and 1 apparent null allele of amylase. Linkage experiments with heterozygous males indicate that amylase is sex-linked. The gene sequence is w (white eye).sbd.Amy (amylase).sbd.M (sex), and the recombination frequencies are: w.sbd.Amy = 6.02%, Amy.sbd.M = 1.35% and w.sbd.M = 7.37%.