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Female and male (wild-type)
Sex comb on male
No sex comb on female
Dark pigmented spot on rounded abdomen of male;male is also usually smallerthan female
Dead
Dead wild-type male:note the wings that are straight off from the body, a sign of death(there are dead flies in other photos as well, by the way)
apterous sepia (ap se)
Wild-type fly with wings and red eyes
Mutant fly with no wings and dark brown eyes
apterous sepia (ap se)Wild-type female:larger than the male, pointedabdomen, no black spot
Wild-type male:smaller than the female,rounded abdomen, blackspot
Two male mutantswith no wings and dark eyes
dumpy sepia (dp se)Two females, mutant on the left, wild-type on the right
Short dumpy wings,different shape fromwild-type
Note that the mutant also has sepia eyes but in this photo, it is hard to see the color difference from wild-type
ebony vestigial (e vg)
Wild-type female
Mutant female:Note the vestigial (shriveled) wingsAnd dark body color compared to wild-type
This is likely a mutant male based onsmall size and what looks like the blackspot on the abdomen, but sex combswould have to be found tobe certain
sepia (se)Note the differentshades of eye colorin sepia mutants; the dark color comes in with ageso more newly hatchedadults might have alighter brown color that canbe mistaken for wild-type red ifyou’re not careful
vestigial sepia (vg se)
Two mutant females
Wild-type female
Wild-type male:Note sex comb onfront leg
yellow Bar (y Bar)
Sex comb on wild-type male
Wild-type female
Sex comb on mutant male
Note lighter body color of mutants compared to wild-type
Bar-shaped eye
yellow white miniature (y w m)
Wild-type female
Sex comb on wild-type male
Mutants, likelymales but need toFind sex combs to be certain:Note white eyes, lighter color,and tiny size