Pictures of Selected Mutant Fly Strains

Antennapedia: Instead of regular antenna, these flies have legs for antenna.

Antennapedia (bottom) with wild type (top)

Dumpy wing: while wings are fully formed, they do not take on the fullness as wild type flies.
Dumpy female on top, wild type male on bottom.

Heldout: wings are at a 90^o angle from the body

in their normal position.

Sepia eyes: eyes are sepia colored, not the typical bright red exhibited in wild types.
Sepia female on the right and wild type female on the left.

Closer view of sepia eye color.

White eye mutants exhibit sex-linkage when crossed with wild types.

White eyed on right, wild type on left.

Wingless: Flies have no wings. Wingless female on the top,

wild type female on the bottom.

Wrinkled wing: Wings appear as if the flies have just eclosed and have not expanded their wings yet.
Wrinkled female on the left, wild type on the right.

More wrinkle-winged flies.

Vestigial/ebony: This mutant is an example of two phenotypes. Wings are greatly reduced and
body type is noticeably darker than the wild type.

Vestigial/ebony in comparison to wild type.