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A study of the salivary gland chromosomes of two strains of Drosophila auraria has revealed a suprisingly high number of inverted tandem duplications and one triplication. The possible origin and significance of these are discussed.
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Kastritsis, C.D., Scouras, Z.G. & Ashburner, M. Duplications in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila auraria . Chromosoma 93, 381–385 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327598
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