RADIATION INDUCED REVERSE MUTATIONS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 45 (1) , 16-18
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.45.1.16
Abstract
Evidence is presented that X-rays and gamma rays can induce back mutations which, insofar as current criteria permit, do not differ from spontaneous back mutations. D. melanogaster [female][female] homo-zygous for one or the other forked pseudoalleles, f3n and f1, both known to back-mutate spontaneously, were irradiated with 4000 r X-rays or gamma rays. The reversal frequency of f3n was significantly increased; experiments with f1 showed no comparable increase. No gross chromosomal rearrangements were associated with the reversions.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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