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IN the course of a series of investigations now in progress concerning the modification of eye colour in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster under X-irradiation, undertaken in connexion with an attempted determination of the volume of the locus white, two changes of colour have been observed which seem of sufficient interest to be worthy of a note at the present time.
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Timofeef–Ressovsky, N.W., Nachrichten von Ges. d. Wiss. Göttingen, N.F. 1, 190.
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ENZMANN, E., HASKINS, C. Two Unusual Modifications of Eye Colour in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 138, 165–166 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138165b0
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