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Differential Synthesis of Nucleic Acids in Sexual Differentiation of Allomyces

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WHAT could well be the final expression of a fundamental, sex-determining antagonism between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) biosynthetic pathways has found a first chemical confirmation in our recent measurements of the percentage values of the DNA/RNA ratios in the gametes of the water mould Allomyces1.

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TURIAN, G. Differential Synthesis of Nucleic Acids in Sexual Differentiation of Allomyces. Nature 196, 493–494 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196493b0

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