The location of a mutator factor in a strain of Drosophila melanogaster by assaying male recombination.

doi:10.1093/genetics/101.3-4.405

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The location of a mutator factor in a strain of Drosophila melanogaster by assaying male recombination.

Genetics - 1 Jan 2000

Scobie N N, Schaffer H E

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In a set of "mutation accumulation lines," of Drosophila melanogaster that had originated from two different wild-caught lethal-carrying second chromosomes (Yamaguchi and Mukai 1974; Mukai and Cockerham 1977; Voelker, Schaffer and Mukai 1980) a correlation exists between high rates of reverse mut...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Drosophila melanogaster
Male
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic

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