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Reversibly Temperature Sensitive Phototransduction Mutant of Drosophila melanogaster

Nature New Biology volume 244, pages 184–186 (1973)Cite this article

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IN the past few years, several laboratories have used the principle of single step mutation in attempts to probe the visual processes of Drosophila melanogaster1–4 and have found several loci, mutations of which result in impaired vision and either complete absence of, or alteration of, the shape of the electroretinogram (ERG).

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DELAND, M., PAK, W. Reversibly Temperature Sensitive Phototransduction Mutant of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature New Biology 244, 184–186 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio244184a0

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