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IN a series of papers, Tate1–4 has described the inheritance and expression of a mutation, white-apricot (w), in the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala. He showed that this factor is probably situated in the X-chromosome and is recessive to the dominant allele for wild-type eye colour which is located in the homologous section of the Y-chromosome in heterozygous males. No evidence was found of crossing-over between X- and Y-chromosomes in this fly. The object of the present communication is to report a similar case in the fly Muscina stabulans.
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PATERSON, H. Sex-linked and Sex-limited Mutation of the Fly Muscina stabulans (Fall.) (Muscidae). Nature 181, 932–933 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181932b0
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