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A Sex Difference in Radioactivity of Artemia cultured in Sea Water containing Phosphorus-32

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PHOSPHORUS as a constituent of energy storage-transfer systems and as a structural component of nucleic acid is essential to life. As such it is not surprising that its radioactive form has proved to be the isotope of greatest biological importance in the disposal of liquid wastes from atomic energy installations1. The present report concerns a phase of a long-term investigation on the genetic effects of radiation on populations of marine animals.

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  1. MARY ELLEN PLUMB: Research Assistant supported by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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  1. Department of Genetics, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina

    DANIEL S. GROSCH

  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

    MARY ELLEN PLUMB

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GROSCH, D., PLUMB, M. A Sex Difference in Radioactivity of Artemia cultured in Sea Water containing Phosphorus-32. Nature 183, 122–123 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183122a0

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