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Chromosome segment duplications in Neurospora crassa: barren crosses beget fertile science.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Feb 2009
Singh Parmit K, Iyer Srividhya V, Ramakrishnan Mukund, Kasbekar Durgadas P
Abstract excerpt
Studies on Neurospora chromosome segment duplications (Dps) performed since the publication of Perkins's comprehensive review in 1997 form the focus of this article. We present a brief summary of Perkins's seminal work on chromosome rearrangements, specifically, the identification of insertional and quasiterminal translocations that can segregate Dp progeny when crossed with normal sequence strains (i.e., T x N)....
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