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Relative X-Ray Sensitivity of Metaphase and Interphase Chromosomes

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MANY investigators have studied the problem of radio-sensitivity of cells in different stages of mitosis and meiosis in a wide range of plants and animals. Much disagreement still exists, however, as to which stages of the nuclear cycle are stages of high sensitivity to chromosome breakage and which stages are relatively resistant.

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SPARROW, A. Relative X-Ray Sensitivity of Metaphase and Interphase Chromosomes. Nature 162, 651–652 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162651b0

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