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Molecular study of the germinal reversions induced at the white-ivory locus in Drosophila melanogaster.
Mutagenesis - 1 Nov 1996
Suárez S, Cabré O, Velázquez A, Creus A, Marcos R, Xamena N
Abstract excerpt
The white-ivory somatic mutation test of Drosophila melanogaster is based on the reversion of the X-linked eye colour recessive mutation white-ivory to wild-type. Although the exact mechanism of white-ivory reversion is not quite understood, it has been suggested that such reversion, both in somatic and germ-line cells, could be due to the precise excision of the tandemly duplicated 2.96 kb DNA fragment...
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