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WHILE examining Feulgen-stained sections of rat bone-marrow, it was observed that certain gramilocyte precursors showed a body strongly resembling the sex chromatin described in other species1 in that it occurred with much greater frequency in female than in male marrows.
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BERENBAUM, M. Determination of Sex in Granulopoietic Cells of Mice and Rats. Nature 188, 603–604 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188603a0
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