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The Journal of Heredity 1989:80(5):403-404
© 1989 The American Genetic Association 80:403-404

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A New Black Tarsomere Allele in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Island of Grand Comoros

M. Coetzee, and N. van Schaik

Department of Tropical Pathology, School of Pathology, South African Institute for Medical Research and the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg
Department of Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand

Address reprint requests to Dr. Coetzee, Department of Medical Entomology, South African Institute for Medical Research, PO Box 1038, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa

Abstract

We received a sample of wild larvae of Aedes aegypti (L.) from the Indian Ocean island of Grand Comoros. Several of the adults reared from the larvae had some degree of black scaling on hind tarsomere V, which is normally all white. The results of crosses of the new mutant with normal A. aegypti and a strain homozygous for the gene black tarsomere (blt) showed that the black scaling is controlled by a single autosomal gene that is allelic to blt. The new allele is dominant to black tarsomere but incompletely dominant to the wild type.


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