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Mosaic: a position-effect variegation eye-color mutant in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Benedict M Q, McNitt L M, Cornel A J, Collins F H
Abstract excerpt
The Mosaic (Mos) mutation, isolated in the F1 of 60Co-irradiated mosquitoes, confers variegated eye color to third and fourth instar larvae, pupae, and adults of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Mos is recessive in wild pink eye (p+) individuals, but is dominant and confers areas of wild-type pigment in mutant pink eye backgrounds. Mos is located 14.4 cM from pink eye on the X chromosome and is associated with a...
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