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The fourth and fifth groups of eye-colour mutants ofDrosophila melanogaster studied histologically and photometrically, are the ruby group with the mutants purple (pr), rosy (ry), pink (p), purpleoicl (pd), claret (ca), maroon (na) and prune (pn), and the red group with the mutants safranin2 (sf2), sepiaoid (sed), dark eye (dke), mahogany (mah), bordeaux (bo) and Moiré (Mé).
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Nolte, D.J. The eye-pigmentary system ofDrosophila . Journ. of Genetics 53, 1–10 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981503
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