Temperature effective periods in development of the mutant type eyelessin Habrobracon

✍ Scribed by Speicher, B. R.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1934
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Volume: 68
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.1400680306

✦ Synopsis

Eyeless, a recessive factor in the parasitic wasp Habrobracon, produces a pair of large lobes on the sides of the head, at the tips of which are located minute compound eyes usually composed of a single facet only. Ocelli are very irregular in position, size and number.

'The investigation here reported was aided through a grant f o r technical assistance to Dr. P. W. Whiting by the Committee on Effects of Radiation on Living Organisms (National Research Council).