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    Drosophila Mutants

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    Fruit fly genetics uses specific notation to describe mutants and wild type flies. Mutant flies exhibit phenotypic mutations and are named after their traits, such as "ebony" for a darker body. The wild type is denoted with a + over the mutant letter code, like e+ for normal body color. Sex-linked genes on the X chromosome are notated differently for males and females, such as XwXw for a white-eyed female and XwY for a white-eyed male. Dominant mutants have an uppercase first letter while recessive mutants are lowercase. Common fruit fly mutants include body color, wing morphology, bristles, eye color, eye shape, and body size.

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    Fruit fly genetics uses specific notation to describe mutants and wild type flies. Mutant flies exhibit phenotypic mutations and are named after their traits, such as "ebony" for a darker body. The wild type is denoted with a + over the mutant letter code, like e+ for normal body color. Sex-linked genes on the X chromosome are notated differently for males and females, such as XwXw for a white-eyed female and XwY for a white-eyed male. Dominant mutants have an uppercase first letter while recessive mutants are lowercase. Common fruit fly mutants include body color, wing morphology, bristles, eye color, eye shape, and body size.

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    Mutants of Drosophila melanoganster and how to identify them.

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    Fruit fly genetics uses specific notation to describe mutants and wild type flies. Mutant flies exhibit phenotypic mutations and are named after their traits, such as "ebony" for a darker body. The wild type is denoted with a + over the mutant letter code, like e+ for normal body color. Sex-linked genes on the X chromosome are notated differently for males and females, such as XwXw for a white-eyed female and XwY for a white-eyed male. Dominant mutants have an uppercase first letter while recessive mutants are lowercase. Common fruit fly mutants include body color, wing morphology, bristles, eye color, eye shape, and body size.

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    Drosophila Mutants

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    Srujana Mohanty
    Fruit fly genetics uses specific notation to describe mutants and wild type flies. Mutant flies exhibit phenotypic mutations and are named after their traits, such as "ebony" for a darker body. The wild type is denoted with a + over the mutant letter code, like e+ for normal body color. Sex-linked genes on the X chromosome are notated differently for males and females, such as XwXw for a white-eyed female and XwY for a white-eyed male. Dominant mutants have an uppercase first letter while recessive mutants are lowercase. Common fruit fly mutants include body color, wing morphology, bristles, eye color, eye shape, and body size.

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    Notation

    In fruit fly genetics, the normal fly is called a "wild type" and
    any fly exhibiting a phenotypic mutation is called a "mutant".

    Mutant flies are given names that generally denote the type
    of mutation the fly exhibits.
    For example, the mutant "ebony" has a much darker body
    than the wild type fly.

    The wild type fly is denoted by a superscript + over the


    mutant letter code. For example, e+ denotes a wild type fly
    for the ebony body trait - meaning it has normal body color
    (not ebony)
    What about notations on Sex
    Chromosomes?
    Under normal diploid conditions a female fruit fly
    has two X chromosomes, a male has an X and a Y
    chromosome. Sex-linked genes are located on one of
    the sex chromosomes (usually the X chromosome).
    Thus, the genotypic notation for a mutant gene for
    white eye color on the X chromosome would look
    like:

    • Xw Xw = white-eyed female
    • Xw+Xw = wild type heterozygote female
    • Xw Y = white-eyed male
    • Xw+ Y = wild type male
    Mutant Phenotypes

    Dominant: The first letter of the


    symbol is in Upper case.
    Ultrabithorax- Ubx1

    Recessive- small case


    Ebony- e
    Body Colour mutants
    Wing morphology mutants
    Bristles morphology mutants
    Eye colour mutants
    Eye shape mutants
    Body size (Tubby)
    Today’s Exercise

    VIAL A- white eyed and Red eyed flies

    VIAL B= Black body and others

    VIAL C- Wild type flies

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