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IT seems to be well established that even at high doses X-rays induce practically no translocations in oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster, although they do produce detachments of the attached X-chromosome. Glass1 and Thomas and Roberts2 discuss possible reasons for this peculiar phenomenon. So far only relatively high doses (for example, 4,500 r. in the work of Kanellis and Radu3) have been used, a procedure which appears to be most promising at first sight because translocations are ordinarily produced by two hits.
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TRAUT, H. X-ray Induction of Autosomal Translocations in Mature Oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 214, 718–719 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214718a0
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