The spontaneous mutant “varnished eye” (symbol
ve) manifests a lustrous and small sized imaginal eye in homozygote. The
ve mutation indistinguishably resembled to
lu but was located on a separate chromosome. Scanning electron microscopic observation of the imaginal eye revealed that the surface of
ve eye was rather flattened and smooth with ca. 40 small pimple-like structures of the facet showing a distinct contrast with the regular hexagonal pattern of ca. 3, 000 facets in normal or
lu eye. The facet arrangement on the surface of
lu eye was fairly regular, but fused (or undifferentiated) structures of chitinous membrane were observed in some places. The facet of
lu eye was regular hexagon in shape with smaller size than that of normal eye.
Linkage tests showed that the
ve gene was linked with
EKp which had been known to be located on the 6th chromosome at 0.0 position. The locus of
ve gene was determined to be 11.1 position on the 6th chromosome through a three-point experiment involving
ECa, F and
ve.
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