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Mutations Induced in Drosophila by Ingested Phosphorus-32

Nature volume 165, pages 117–118 (1950)Cite this article

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SEVERAL recent papers1–4 have described the cytological effects of radioactive phosphorus (P32) assimilated into plant tissues. As was to be expected, there was a general similarity between the structural changes so induced and X-ray changes. To our knowledge, no published account has yet appeared of the induction of gene mutations by phosphorus-32 or other radioisotopes.

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  1. John Innes Horticultural Institution, Bayfordbury, Hertford

    A. J. BATEMAN

  2. Physics Department, Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, London, S.W.3

    W. K. SINCLAIR

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BATEMAN, A., SINCLAIR, W. Mutations Induced in Drosophila by Ingested Phosphorus-32. Nature 165, 117–118 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165117a0

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