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Genetics: Genetic Analysis of Developmental Mechanisms in Drosophila

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The fruit fly Drosophila is being increasingly used in embryological experiments. Because of its well known genetics, and the ease with which the larvae can be manipulated in a variety of ways, it provides an ideal system for following such processes as cellular determination during differentiation, and cloning in morphogenesis.

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SCHNEIDERMAN, H., BRYANT, P. Genetics: Genetic Analysis of Developmental Mechanisms in Drosophila. Nature 234, 187–194 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234187a0

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