Brown larva: an allele of the green larva mutation in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi.
We isolated a new larval color mutant, brown larva (b), from the Bangalore, India strain of Anopheles stephensi Liston. The gene b is an autosomal recessive with uniform expression and complete penetrance. We conducted extensive crosses to establish allelism between brown larva (b) and green larva (g) reported previously in An. stephensi from our laboratory. The wild-type is dominant to green larva, which, in turn, is dominant to brown larva. These larval color mutants belong to an allelic series.
Shetty
N J
NJ
The Centre for Applied Genetics, Bangalore University, India.
Kumar
P
P
Narang
S K
SK
Foglesong
P D
PD
Joslyn
D J
DJ
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics*; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D010858:Pigmentation / Q000235:genetics*