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Genetical Interference in Drosophila spp.

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IN chromosomes II and III of D. melonogoster Owen1 found good agreement with the interference function 4u exp(− 2u) which is distributed as ¼χ2 4. In the X-chromosome the position was more doubtful, possibly due to misclassification, which tends to inflate the rare double recombinant classes in multipoint linkage tests, hence altering the estimates of the intensity of interference.

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