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To explore the possibility of linking a visible morphological character with the resistant gene for the study of population genetics of resistance of insects to insecticides1, mutations were induced in C. fatigans by exposing them to X-rays.
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PAL, R., KRISHNAMURTHY, B. Induced Mutations of X-Ray Irradiations in Culex fatigans Wied (1828). Nature 184, 658 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184658a0
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