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The mutagenic efficiency of ionizing radiations has been tested on different lines of Drosophila melanogaster. It has been shown that differential lethal effects are obtained when irradiated females from different lines are mated to flies carrying heterozygous lethal genes. The results seem not to be attributable to differential expression of the lethality in the various crosses performed with the irradiated flies. This might suggest that gene activity is involved in the expression of the mutagenic effects of radiations.
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Palenzona, D.L., Guerra, D. & Casanova, P. Differential mutagenic response in selected lines of Drosophila melanogaster . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 50, 125–127 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276806
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