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Genotypic Control of Crossing-Over on the First Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster

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WHILE it has long been known that crossing-over varies both with the environment1 and with maternal stage of development2, relatively little is known about its genotypic control. Such information as exists is derived chiefly from the cytological observation of chiasma-frequency3, although some is also available from the early work on Drosophila melanogaster by Gowen4 and by Detlefson and Roberts5. Since cytological observations can rarely provide detailed information about the distribution of points of exchange along the lengths of single chromosomes, it was thought worth while to examine the genotypic control of crossing-over by the genetical study of recombination.

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LAWRENCE, M. Genotypic Control of Crossing-Over on the First Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster . Nature 182, 889–890 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182889a0

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