A mutator factor in a strain of Drosophila melanogaster: identified by use of mutation, reversion rates and male recombination.

doi:10.1093/genetics/101.3-4.417

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A mutator factor in a strain of Drosophila melanogaster: identified by use of mutation, reversion rates and male recombination.

Genetics - 1 Jan 2000

Scobie N N, Schaffer H E

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A set of 1,000 "mutation accumulation" lines Drosophila melanogaster, which originated from two different wild-type, lethal-bearing second chromosomes (Yamaguchi and Mukai 1974; Mukai and Cockerham 1977), was examined for evidence of a mutator factor by using the occurrence of recessive visible m...

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Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Male
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic

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