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Puffing Patterns in Drosophila Melanogaster and Related Species

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Developmental Studies on Giant Chromosomes

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 4))

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The major objective of this review is to summarize our knowledge of the behaviour of polytene chromosome puffs in Drosophila melanogaster and some of its more closely related species. It is hoped that this review will provide a sufficient background of information for further analysis of puffing in D. melanogaster for, as will become apparent later in this review, the wealth of our knowledge of the genetics of this species, and the relative ease with which it can be subjected to “genetic engineering”, far outweigh its disadvantages as an object of cytological examination.

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Ashburner, M. (1972). Puffing Patterns in Drosophila Melanogaster and Related Species. In: Beermann, W. (eds) Developmental Studies on Giant Chromosomes. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37164-9_5

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