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Abstract
Phototaxis mazes have been employed to select photopositive and photonegative strains of Drosophila simulans. The results suggest that phototactic behavior in D. simulans, as in other Drosophila species, is a polygenic trait. Hybridization using divergent strains revealed that the genes controlling negative phototactic behavior in D. simulans are autosomal, as opposed to D. melanogaster in which negative phototactic behavior is known to be very strongly sex-linked.Entities:
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Year: 1977 PMID: 863226 PMCID: PMC1213630
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562