title: A method for detecting and measuring concealed variability in the mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus.
abstract: A natural population of Culex tritaeniorhynchus was sampled to test the efficacy of a proposed method to detect and measure concealed variability. Thirty-nine lethals and ten recessive visible mutations were uncovered out of a total of 125 chromosomes tested.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D003465:Culex; D005260:Female; D005804:Genes, Lethal; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006579:Heterozygote; D006720:Homozygote; D007246:Infertility; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype