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EXTRACHROMOSOMAL hereditary elements may be very much more important than present genetic convention supposes, and Gruneberg's1 hypothesis that extranuclear entities are responsible for differentiation in skeletal patterns between sublines of mice is intriguing. But the rejection of the alternative view that changes in nuclear genes are responsible for this effect is supported by an argument that is not wholly convincing.
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BEARDMORE, J. Viral Components in the Genetic Background ?. Nature 226, 766–767 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226766a0
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