LYRA [Ly]
Lindsley & Grell, 1972, p. 146
location: 3-40.5.
origin: X ray induced.
discoverer: Dubinin, 1929.
references: Coyne, 1935, DIS 4: 59. Morgan, Bridges, and Schultz, 1937, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Year Book 36: 301.
phenotype: Lateral margins of wings excised, giving narrowed shape; angle between veins L2 and L5 reduced. Bristles shortened and stubby, post-scutellars frequently missing. Eyes somewhat deformed, with tufted vibrissae. Abdomen dark and narrow, with rear edge of tergites raised. Homozygous lethal. Ly/M(3)h33j is lethal. Modification of wings first visible as marginal scalloping of prepupal wing buds; wing fold narrower (Waddington, 1939, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 25: 304; 1940, J. Genet. 41: 75-139). RK1A.
cytology: Placed in 70A3-5 on the basis of its association with Df(3L)Ly = Df(3L)70A2-3;70A5-6 (Bridges).
color figure: P. A. Otto (original)
b & w figure: Bridges and Brehme, 1944, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. No. 552: 118 (original drawn by Edith M. Wallace)