Rapid isolation of anopheline mosquito eye-colour mutants, based on larval colour change.

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A method is presented for the rapid isolation of eye-colour mutants in anopheline mosquitoes based on their inability to undergo a background-stimulated morphological colour change. For application of this method, larval mosquitoes, whose grandfathers had been mutagenized, were reared in black containers and examined with the naked eye en masse during the third or fourth instar. The vast majority of larvae became...

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