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Mitomycin C induces genomic rearrangements involving transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Jan 1990
Georgiev P G, Korochkina S E, Georgieva S G, Gerasimova T I
Abstract excerpt
Mitomycin C was injected into the abdomen of male flies of the y2 sc1 waG strain of Drosophila melanogaster. They were mated with females bearing attached-X chromosomes, and the male offspring (F1) were analysed for the appearance of mutations in the X chromosome. We observed y+ and sc+ reversions induced either by excision of mdg4 (gypsy) with retention of one long terminal repeat (LTR) or by insertion of a...
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