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The effect of storage on the frequency of dominant lethals in Drosophila melanogaster

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Ethylenimine, ethyl methanesulfonate and formaldehyde have been shown to produce a storage effect in dominant lethality in Drosophila melanogaster.

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  1. R. J. Šrám

    Present address: Institute of Hygiene, Srobarova 48, Prague 10, Czechoslovakia

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Šrám, R.J. The effect of storage on the frequency of dominant lethals in Drosophila melanogaster . Molec. Gen. Genetics 106, 286–288 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00340387

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