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Refinements in the cytogenic localization technique indicate that the white gene in Drosophila melanogaster cannot occupy more than a small fraction of the polytene chromosome band with which it is exclusively associated.
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SORSA, V., GREEN, M. & BEERMANN, W. Cytogenetic Fine Structure and Chromosomal Localization of the White Gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature New Biology 245, 34–37 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio245034a0
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