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Science 9 September 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3428, pp. 677 - 678
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3428.677
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Completion of Meiosis in Uninseminated Eggs of Drosophila melanogaster

W. W. Doane 1

1 Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Contrary to earlier statements, meiosis goes to completion in "Linfertilized" eggs of Drosophila melanogaster. Evidence suggests that this is not only characteristic of the strain examined but of the species as a whole and of other Drosophila species as well.


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