Abstract
THE carbon dioxide susceptibility in Drosophila, discovered by L'Héritier and Teissier1, and apparently inherited in a non-Mendelian manner, shows maternal as well as slight paternal inheritance, and has been tentatively ascribed to a parasite, perhaps a virus2. The following experiments were designed to test whether the material basis of susceptibility shows one of the properties of viruses, namely, the ability to be transmitted by grafting. This was done by using the transplantation technique of Ephroussi and Beadle3.
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KALMUS, H., MITCHISON, A. Transplantation of Larval Ovaries in Drosophila from and to Individuals Susceptible to Carbon Dioxide. Nature 157, 230–231 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157230b0
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