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Induction of lethal mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by DNA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

S. Gershenson
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Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian S.S.R., Kiev, U.S.S.R.
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Addition to the food of Drosophila larvae of DNA from calf thymus induces a considerable number of recessive lethal mutations in the 2nd chromosome. An analysis of sixty-six such lethals showed that most of them affect the same segment containing probably some thirty to thirty-five sub-units capable of mutating together or separately.

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