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A New Eye Colour Mutation in Calliphora erythrocephala Meig

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IN the summer of 1960 a variant eye colour appeared spontaneously in a culture of Calliphora erythrocephala which was being kept in the Zoological Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Dr. Peters, a member of the Institute, bred a pure strain from the few mutant individuals and gave us some of their progeny for research.

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LANGER, H. A New Eye Colour Mutation in Calliphora erythrocephala Meig. Nature 194, 111–112 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194111b0

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