1. Fly
Several tests can be used to differentiate the different eye mutant stocks of fruit flies according to phenotype and genotype. ... A mutation in any vital pigment produces eyes different than that of the wild-type fly, which possesses brick-red eyes. This natural color is the result of a mix of brown pigments known as ommochromes, and red pigments, or pteridines (Biochemical Separation of Eye Pigments, Bumbulis.) Mutant eye colors, which can range anywhere from another shade of red, to brown, apricot, or white, as mentioned before, are the result of any defect in a gene coding for that pigm...
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