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IN a useful article which appeared under this title recently1 H. L. K. W. says at one stage: “Nothing is known about the mechanism of chromosome pairing at the molecular level, but Watson and Crick (Nature, 171, 964; 1953) suggested that it involved the pairing of complementary nucleotide chains to form a double helix. There seems to be no alternative to this account for the specificity of pairing, and a more detailed hypothesis along these lines has been proposed by Sobell (Proc. US Nat. Acad. Sci., 69, 2483; 1972)”.
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MCGAVIN, S. Chromosome Pairing. Nature 242, 330 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242330a0
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