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Dose-rate and Mutation Frequency after Irradiation of Mouse Spermatogonia

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Mathematical expressions relating dose-rate and mutation frequency and their fit to low dose-rate data are considered.

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    MARY F. LYON, D. G. PAPWORTH & RITA J. S. PHILLIPS

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LYON, M., PAPWORTH, D. & PHILLIPS, R. Dose-rate and Mutation Frequency after Irradiation of Mouse Spermatogonia. Nature New Biology 238, 101–104 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio238101a0

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