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Production of Attached X-Chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster Males

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KAUFMANN1 and Neuhaus2,3 indicated the likelihood of crossing-over between X- and Y-chromosomes in females of Drosophila melanogaster. They explained the frequent attachment of the long arm of the Y-chromosome to the proximal end of the X-chromosome as described by Stern4, as a result of crossing-over in males between the X- and the short arm of the Y-chromosome.

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  1. B. P. Kaufmann, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 19 (1933).

  2. M. I. Neuhaus, C.R., 3, No. 1 (1935).

  3. M. I. Neuhaus, Z. End. Abst. und Vererbgsl., 71 (1936).

  4. C. Stern, Z. End. Abst. und Vererbgsl., 51 (1929).

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  1. Maxim Gorky Medico-Genetical Research Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

    M. J. NEUHAUS

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NEUHAUS, M. Production of Attached X-Chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster Males. Nature 137, 996–997 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137996c0

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