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White (mutation)
white was the first sex-linked mutation ever discovered in Drosophila melanogaster. In 1910 Thomas Hunt Morgan, (or, legend has it, his wife) collected a single male white-eyed mutant from a population of Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, which usually have bright red eyes.
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