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Ageing before mating and quinacrine ameliorate the expression of abnormal oocyte (abo) in homozygous Drosophila melanogaster females.
Hereditas - 1 Jan 1993
Onfelt A, Magnusson J, Wikén M
Abstract excerpt
Several studies have shown that the characteristically skewed sex ratio among the progeny of abo homozygous females, derived from heterozygous stocks and mated to attached XY males, can be modified during homozygous stock-keeping. This amelioration seems to have a complex mechanistic background, and both loss of the blood transposon from chromosome 2, where abo is located, and amplification of a specific...
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