HE pattern of distribution of bristles in Drosophila melanogaster is under ' genic control.Thus, the first tarsal segment of a foreleg of female genotype does not differentiate the row of heavy bristles which constitutes a sex comb while this structure is formed on a foreleg of male genotype.The determination of the
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Chiyoko Tokunaga (1961) studied this question.