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A study of recombination between the recessive mutant short-wing (sw) and the sex-locus in Aedes aegypti revealed a greater number of female (m/m) than male (M/m) recombinants in the test-cross: +M/sw m♂ × sw m/sw m♀. In both sexes, but more particularly in the female, the frequency of recombinants was seen to increase over a number of generations of laboratory culture. In three substrains of short wing fixed for different eye colours, one showed a significantly increased number of female recombinants compared with the base strain and the two other substrains. Three-point test-crosses between M, sw, and w (or re) showed the sw locus to be positioned between M and w, near bz.
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Pearson, A. Linkage studies on the mutant Short-wing in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Heredity 44, 425–429 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1980.39
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