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UNSTABLE genes are found to be very suitable for the study of many factors influencing mutability, because high-mutability stock yields significant results for a number of flies examined much lower than with standard ClB method. In this study the influence of chemicals on germinal mutations of unstable gene mt-3a (Drosophila virilis)1 was investigated. Altogether 79,011 flies were examined and 3,617 mutants found.
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ZAMENHOF, S. Effect of Factors Influencing Mutability. Nature 153, 169 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153169a0
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