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A novel transposition system in Drosophila melanogaster depending on the Stalker mobile genetic element.
The EMBO journal - 1 Jul 1990
Georgiev P G, Kiselev S L, Simonova O B, Gerasimova T I
Abstract excerpt
Crosses between the Drosophila melanogaster y2sc1waG strain or some of its derivatives and the FM4 strain yielded insertional mutagenesis with a frequency of 10(-3)-10(-4). The system differs in several respects from the known cases of hybrid dysgenesis: (i) it does not depend on the direction of a cross; (ii) destabilization continues for a long time after initial crosses; (iii) mutations may occur at different...
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