New fly head phenotype

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An undergrad, Angelina Holcomb, is working on a telomere-aging genetics project in the lab. While setting up crosses she noticed an odd eye phenotype. The two flies at the top of the image have smaller eyes and disrupted head development, along with some other more subtle phenotypes, compared to their sibling controls at the bottom of the image.

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