In a genetics experiment conducted in November 1937 with Drosophila melanogaster and involving the dominant mutant Star (S, in chromosome 2- at locus 1.3; causing an irregularity in the arrangement of eye facets and facet hairs, the homozygote being lethal), a number of flies appeared with small narrow eyes. When these were mated inter se, all of the F1 had abnormal eyes, but these varied in size from that of S/+ (see Table 4) to a narrow slit of red pigment on which only a few facets were scattered. A clue to the manner of inheritance of the type with narrow eyes was found by mating a narrow-eye male to a wild-type female, with the result shown in Table 1.
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Lewis, E.B. (2007). Star-Recessive, a Spontaneous Mutation in Drosophila Melanogaster. In: Lipshitz, H.D. (eds) Genes, Development, and Cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6345-9_1
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