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Variations in the recombination rate of Drosophila melanogaster induced by balloon flight
J Proust1, M C Giess, C Prudhommeau
1Laboratoire de Genetique, Faculte des Sciences, Biologie Experimentale, Orsay, France.
Life Sciences and Space Research
|January 1, 1980
Abstract:
Drosophila males, heterozygous for b, pr, cn and en genes, were submitted to balloon flights, ceiling time ranging from about 8 hours (flights performed in France) to 22 hours (transmediterranean flight). Effects on recombination were investigated on progeny after breeding with females homozygous for the same genes. The transmediterranean flight and one flight performed in France resulted in a significantly higher recombination rate.