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A METHOD FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING CONCEALED VARIABILITY IN THE MOSQUITO, CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS
Richard K. Sakai 1 and Richard H. Baker 2
1 Pakistan Medical Research Center, 6, Birdwood Road, Lahore, Pakistan
2 Institute of Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
A natural population of Culex tritaeniorhynchus was sampled to test the efficacy of a proposed method to detect and measure concealed variability. Thirty-nine lethals and ten recessive visible mutations were uncovered out of a total of 125 chromosomes tested.
Submitted on November 29, 1971Revised on February 9, 1972