Mutations in the Anopheles gambiae pink-eye and white genes define distinct, tightly linked eye-color loci

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-53

  Benedict, M Q ^b   Besansky, N J ^a   Chang, H ^a   Mukabayire, O ^b   Collins, F H ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INHERITANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 0029864062     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a022952     Document Type: Article

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