Drosophilia macromutations

These images show the power of macromutations. The top image shows a healthy wild type Drosophila melanogaster. The other two show the effects of mutations in the bithorax complex: one has an extra pair of wings (centre) and one has no wings at all (bottom). It is unlikely that these mutants would survive in the wild.Courtesy of David Roberts
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