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XVIII.—Studies on Reproduction in Wild-Type and Female-Sterile Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster (Meig)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

R. A. Beatty  and
C. H. Waddington
R. A. Beatty
Affiliation:
Genetics Laboratory, Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organization, Edinburgh.
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Drosophila mutants are usually defined by structural characteristics exhibited by the adult fly. In certain cases (homozygous lethal mutants and female-sterile mutants) the mutant may or may not be defined structurally, but does exhibit the physiological characteristic of death at some stage.

The females of homozygous lethals are sterile, for the F1; represented by the germinal cells, dies with the mother. The term female-sterile, however, is applied to the well-known cases in which the mother but not her F1 achieve imaginal life.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , 1949 , pp. 249 - 270
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1949

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