Fruit Fly Mutant Guide (Drosophila melanogaster)
USA Science and Engineering Festival 2014
Normal “Wild-type” flies have:
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Red eyes
A light brown body
Round wings
Straight, long bristles
Mutations on display:
White: white eyes
Eyeless: eye absent
Stubble: short
bristles
Sunset eyes: eyes
are half red and
half white
GFP and RFP eyes:
eyes appear red or
green under
fluorescent light
Scutoid: loss
of bristles
Fruit Fly Mutant Guide (Drosophila melanogaster)
USA Science and Engineering Festival 2014
Curly: wings curled up at the tip
Vestigial: shriveled wings
Apterous: no wings
Serrate: wings
appear clipped
Yellow: yellow
colored body
Ebony: dark colored body