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PROF. RUGGLES GATES has published photographs of chromosomes at mitosis in Trillium sessile by Mr. Mensinkai, which he states show a double coiled structure of chromatids1. It happens that structures of this kind have also been obtained in the John Innes laboratory in root tip preparations of the same species and are described in an article by my colleague Mr. La Cour and me in a paper now in the press2.
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Gates, R. R., NATURE, 140, 1013 (1937).
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DARLINGTON, C. Structure of Chromosomes. Nature 141, 371–372 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141371c0
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