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Science 23 July 1965:
Vol. 149. no. 3682, pp. 426 - 427
DOI: 10.1126/science.149.3682.426
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Radiation-Induced Increases in Fitness in the Flour Beetle Tribolium confusum

John W. Crenshaw 1

1 Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742

Polygenic mutations were induced in an inbred strain of Tribolium confusum by exposure to 500 roentgens of gamma radiation. Female progeny of irradiated males bearing induced mutations in the heterozygous state produced significantly more viable offspring than control female progeny of nonirradiated males.


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