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WE have found that treatment with ultrasonics of eggs of Drosophila melanogaster can induce abnormal embryonic development, and the method provides a tool for use in experimental embryology. Ultrasonic intensities insufficiently great to cause the disruptive effects of cavitation and the associated chemical effects may yet induce streaming movements within the egg so that nuclei, cytoplasm and yolk are left in unusual positions. Abnormal development may then follow.
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SELMAN, G., COUNCE, S. Abnormal Embryonic Development in Drosophila induced by Ultrasonic Treatment. Nature 172, 503–504 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172503b0
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