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STURTEVANT1 has shown by the study of elimination mosaics involving an X-chromosome carrying the ‘gene’ Bar (reducing the number of facets in the eye of Drosophila melanogaster) that “the presence of tissue that is genetically ‘not-bar’ in some manner induces the formation of facets in tissue that is genetically bar and that would not normally have developed facets”. The obvious conclusion was that these facts had to be interpreted “in terms of some influence that is intercellular in nature”.
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EPHRUSSI, B., KHOUVINE, Y. & CHEVAIS, S. Genetic Control of a Morphogenetic Substance in Drosophila melanogaster?. Nature 141, 204–205 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141204b0
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