Genetic and biochemical analysis of brown eye mutation in Drosophila nasuta nasuta and Drosophila nasuta albomicans

Ashadevi, J. S. and Ramesh, S. R. (2000) Genetic and biochemical analysis of brown eye mutation in Drosophila nasuta nasuta and Drosophila nasuta albomicans. Genetica, 109. pp. 235-243. ISSN 1573-6857

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Abstract

By analyzing the progeny of crosses involving brown eye mutants and the wild types in two members of Drosophila nasuta subgroup namely D. n. nasuta and D. n. albomicans we could show that the mutant gene is recessive, located in the chromosome 2 and the alleles of this gene are present at different loci. A study of fitness in the eye color mutants in comparison with the wild types revealed that D. n. nasuta mutant has higher viability at both 25 ± 1°C and ambient temperatures; while D. n. albomicans mutant has faster rate of development only at 25 ± 1°C. Quantitative analysis of eye pigments in the mutants revealed that there is biosynthesis of both pteridines and xanthommatins unlike in bw/bw of D. melanogaster, where only xanthommatins are synthesized. In both the species, the pteridine quantities in mutants are similar; whereas xanthommatin quantity in bwn/bwn is 10 times higher than that of bwa/bwa. Further, the F1 progeny of intraspecific crosses (wild type X mutant) are found to have high amounts of pteridine, even when compared with parental wild type.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	C Chemical Science > Chemistry
Divisions:	Department of > Chemistry
Depositing User:	C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2020 07:41
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2020 07:41
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/12157

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