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. 1953 Jun;39(6):488–495. doi: 10.1073/pnas.39.6.488

The Effect of Pretreatment with Infra-Red Radiation on the X-ray Induced Sex-Linked Recessive Lethal and Visible Mutation Rate in Drosophila Melanogaster

William J Young 1,*, Henry T Yost Jr 1, P T Ives 1, R Paul Levine 1,†
PMCID: PMC1063811  PMID: 16589294

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