SPINELESS [ss]
Lindsley & Grell, 1972, pp. 236-237
location: 3-58.5.
discoverer: Bridges, 14a3.
references: Bridges and Morgan, 1923, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. No. 327: 109 (fig.).
Morgan, Bridges, and Sturtevant, 1925, Bibliog. Genet. 2: 211 (fig.), 236.
phenotype: Bristles only a little larger than hairs; dorsocentrals least reduced. Postscutellars erect. No effect on legs or aristae. Growth of bristles slows during development [Lees and Waddington, 1943, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), Ser. B 131: 87-110]. RK1.
cytology: Locus placed in 89C1-2 (Lewis, 1963, Am. Zoologist 3: 33-56).
other information: A compound locus (Hexter).
color figure: P. A. Otto (original)
b & w figure: Morgan, Bridges and Sturtevant, 1925, The Genetics of Drosophila, Bibliog. Genet. 2: 1-262 (original drawn by Edith M. Wallace)