EMS-induced mutations in Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Say), species A

J Hered. 1989 Jan-Feb;80(1):58-61. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110790.

Abstract

Three new mutants were induced in a laboratory strain of Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Say), species A, by feeding adult males ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS). Rose eye (ro) is a recessive X-linked trait. Short antenna (Sa) and melanotic (Mel) are dominant autosomal traits that are lethal in the homozygous condition. Linkage crosses and X-autosome translocations were used to assign short antenna to the right arm of chromosome 3 about 45 map units proximal to stripe (st+), and melanotic was located on chromosome 2 near the centromere.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anopheles / drug effects
  • Anopheles / genetics*
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Crosses, Genetic
  • Ethyl Methanesulfonate / pharmacology
  • Female
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Male
  • Mutation*
  • Translocation, Genetic
  • X Chromosome

Substances

  • Ethyl Methanesulfonate