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DNA replication in polytene chromosomes: Similarity of termination patterns in somatic and germ-line derived polytene chromosomes of Anopheles stephensi liston (Diptera: Culicidae)

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DNA replication is initiated in the ovarian follicles of the anautogenous Culicid Anopheles stephensi in response to a blood meal. The chronology of nurse cell polytene chromosome3H-thymidine labelling patterns has been defined and the terminal labelling patterns of the nurse cell and larval salivary gland polytene X-chromosomes have been compared and found to be essentially similar.

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Redfern, C.P.F. DNA replication in polytene chromosomes: Similarity of termination patterns in somatic and germ-line derived polytene chromosomes of Anopheles stephensi liston (Diptera: Culicidae). Chromosoma 84, 33–47 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00293361

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