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rDNA magnification in D. melanogaster increases the redundancy of that locus to a value higher than the wild type. A magnified locus (bb m) can lose the express copies according to rDNA content of partner sexual chromosome. This paper is a study of behaviour of two bb m loci put together to show their interaction.
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Graziani, F., Boncinelli, E., Malva, C. et al. Mutual regulation of magnified bobbed loci in Drosophila melanogaster . Molec. gen. Genet. 134, 307–311 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00337465
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