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This work was in part supported by research grants, C-382 (C 1–3), from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, to whom our grateful acknowledgment is hereby given. The writers also acknowledge with thanks the capable assistance of Miss Helen L. Byers in the prosecution of this work.
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Muller, H., Altenburg, L., Meyer, H. et al. The lack of proportionality between mutation rate and ultraviolet dose in Drosophila. Heredity 8, 153–185 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1954.16
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