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Science 14 September 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4104, pp. 1059 - 1060
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4104.1059
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Phenocopies of Pigmentary and Behavioral Effects of the Yellow Mutant in Drosophila Induced by agr-Dimethyltyrosine

Barrie Burnet 1, Kevin Connolly 1, and Brian Harrison 1

1 Departments of Genetics and Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England

agr-Dimethyltyrosine induces a phenocopy of the body color mutant yellow when fed to larvae of Drosophila melanogaster. The compound also induces changes in male courtship behavior which are similar to the effects of the mutant gene.


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