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Autoradiography of Polytene Chromosomes of Rhynchosciara angelae at Different Stages of Larval Development

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THE polytene chromosomes of Diptera, since their rediscovery in 19331,2, have proved to be excellent material for cytogenetic studies. They present a longitudinal differentiation into a series of transverse bands, which were shown to be the sites of the genes3,4. Recently, experiments performed with Chironomidae5–7 and Sciaridae8,9 showed that the bands of polytene chromosomes may vary in their morphology in different cells at the same stage of larval development and in the same cell at different stages of the larval life.

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  1. Laboratoire de Morphologie animale, Université Libre de Bruxelles,

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  2. Departamento de Biologia Geral, Faculdade de Fil., Ciên. e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo,

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FICQ, A., PAVAN, C. Autoradiography of Polytene Chromosomes of Rhynchosciara angelae at Different Stages of Larval Development. Nature 180, 983–984 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180983a0

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