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The ultrastructure of the compound eyes of several photonegative selection lines and their unselected photopositive controls of five species of themelanogaster subgroup was analyzed. A qualitative phenotypic change concerning the rhabdomeres in one of the photonegative selection lines ofD. mauritiana could be detected. It was proved that this structural aberration of the rhabdomeres is caused by a parallel mutation of the mutantora (outer rhabdomeres absent) ofD. melanogaster.
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Engeln, H., Krause, J., Wachmann, E. et al. Negative phototaxis inDrosophila associated with a morphological change in the compound eye. Experientia 41, 611–612 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02007682
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