Tergite Compare And Contrast

There were observable differences between the mutant and wild-type Drosophila melanogaster. The mutant pupae were lighter in comparison to the wild-type pupae, while the larvae were the same color. After eclosion, the mutant expressed a slightly darker pigment than the wild-type. Hours later, the expressivity of the mutation increased, and the female and male mutants had a noticeably darker pigment than the wild-type on the legs, wings, head, and overall body. Because of the darker pigment, the mutant will henceforth be referred to as darkydark. The wild-type and darkydark fly had a dark brown stripe on the inferior part of tergites one through four, but the wild-type had a lighter brown/tan superior part on each tergite; whereas, the superior section of the darkydark tergite had similar pigmentation to the inferior part of the same tergite, though slightly lighter.
The most noticeable difference was the fifth and sixth tergites on darkydark females. The fifth and sixth tergites expressed a solid color of dark-brown/black with no light color contrasting it, which differed from the wild-type female and tergites one through four on darkydark. A female darkydark’s fifth and sixth tergites were similar to the fifth and sixth tergites of a wild-type male. The wild-type wings and veins were much lighter in comparison to darkydark’s wings, which had a dark brown to black pigment, similar to the rest of the body. The darker pigmentation of darkydark’s wings allowed a rounded shape to be more evident, which was not noticeable in the lighter pigmented wild-type wings (seen in Figure 1). Darkydark flies displayed slightly different levels of expressivity when comparing similarly aged flies, and the gene appeared to have 100%