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AT the recent Newcastle meeting of the British Association, the Botany and Zoology Sections jointly held a symposium on the artificial induction of mutations. Dr. P. T. Thomas (Aberystwyth) reviewed the work on the induction of cytoplasmic changes by the action of chemical agents. He pointed out that when such changes are induced in lower organisms, as in yeasts, they often appear to be relatively stable, indicating that the cytoplasm in these organisms is incompletely subordinated to the control of the nucleus. In higher organisms, on the other hand, cytoplasmie changes are of limited duration (Dauermodifikation), although they may last through several sexual generations.
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Induction of Mutations. Nature 164, 731–733 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164731a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164731a0