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THROUGH the kindness of Mrs. Sexton, of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, I was able to obtain a stock of a new mutation producing red, instead of the normal black, facets in the eyes of the amphipod Gammarus chevreuxi, Sexton. It had appeared in the first F2 of a pair from a dredging taken in Chelson Meadows, near Plymouth, about a year ago, and my intention was to make a study of the effects of temperature on this mutant similar to that made by E. B. Ford and J. S. Huxley (1927) on the first red-eye mutation. For this purpose it was necessary to cross the new form with the red-eye mutations which had previously appeared, in order to determine whether or not it was homologous with any of them.
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Sexton, E. W. and Clark, A. K., NATURE, 131, 201; 1933.
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YARNOLD, K. A Further Reappearance of the Second Red-Eye Mutation in Gammarus. Nature 135, 832–833 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135832b0
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