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ANALYSES of eye-colour mutants have brought important contributions to the genetics, as well as to the biochemistry, of pigment metabolism of insects1. As in Drosophila, Ephestia and Bombyx, mutants have been found in Apis mellifera which are more or less different in their eye colour2,3. Although several genetic studies have been carried out on these honey bee mutations3,4, their characteristic phenotypes have not been analysed chemically. The objective of the research reported here was to identify the substances producing the eye colour of the mutants and to follow every change in their metabolism so that all mutants could be chemically characterized.
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DUSTMANN, J. Pigment Studies on Several Eye-colour Mutants of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera. Nature 219, 950–952 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219950b0
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