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Palp-antenna, a homeotic mutant in Aedes aegypti.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Petersen J L, Larsen J R, Craig G B
Abstract excerpt
Palp-antenna is a homeotic mutant of Aedes aegypti that modifies the apex of the maxillary palps of both sexes into a variable number of antenna-like segments. The fine structure of the antenna, including sexual dimorphism, is apparent in the mutant palps. Palp-antenna is a sex-linked recessive. a linkage distance of 27.9 +/- 0.45 crossover units from sex is estimated from F2 and backcross data. Penetrance is...
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