Brown larva: an allele of the green larva mutation in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi.

Abstract excerpt

We isolated a new larval color mutant, brown larva (b), from the Bangalore, India strain of Anopheles stephensi Liston. The gene b is an autosomal recessive with uniform expression and complete penetrance. We conducted extensive crosses to establish allelism between brown larva (b) and green larv...

Topics

• Alleles
• Animals
• Anopheles
• Crosses, Genetic
• Female
• Male
• Mutation
• Pigmentation