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The microstructure and origin of the threadlike bodies isolated from the metabolic nucleus

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Shadowed electron micrographs show many details of the fine structure of threadlike bodies isolated from tortoise erythrocyte nuclei (comp. table 1). We consider it more appropriate to use the term “metabolic chromosome” to describe the threadlike bodies.

Assuming that the genes are found in the chromosome as morphological genetic units the nodules observed in the chromofilaments or a fraction of them presumably correspond to the genes.

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  1. Medical Department, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    G. Yasuzumi, G. Miyao, Y. Yamamoto & J. Yokoyama

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Yasuzumi, G., Miyao, G., Yamamoto, Y. et al. The microstructure and origin of the threadlike bodies isolated from the metabolic nucleus. Chromosoma 4, 359–368 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00325779

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