Gene conversion in higher organisms: Non-reciprocal recombination events at the rosy cistron in<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
Genetics ResearchPublished 1 April 1971Open access
G. H. Ballantyne, Arthur Chovnick
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Abstract
SUMMARY Analysis of a series of exceptional ry + half-tetrads, produced in mass matings involving rosy mutant heterozygous half-tetrads, provides rigorous demonstration of the occurrence of non-reciprocal as well as reciprocal recombination events within the rosy cistron of Drosophila melanogaster . Inferences about allele recombination drawn from this and other studies in Drosophila provide a strong argument that gene conversion occurs as a regular event in higher eukaryotes.
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