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Replication in Polytene Chromosomes

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Developmental Studies on Giant Chromosomes

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 4))

Abstract

Replication of polytene chromosomes has been reviewed frequently in the last two decades, either as a facet of chromosome replication in general or in treatments restricted to polytene nuclei. The reader is referred especially to the following for further discussion and bibliographic references: Beermann (1962), Pelling (1969), Taylor (1969), Prescott (1970), Swift (1969), John and Lewis (1969), Wagner (1969), and Pavan and da Cunha (1969). Most of the work reviewed in the following has been carried out on salivary glands of the higher Diptera. The view is taken that their chromosomes are synthesized by the same basic metabolic machinery that is used in other tissues and that phenomena observed in them should provide insights into the nature of the replication process in all cells.

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Rudkin, G.T. (1972). Replication in Polytene Chromosomes. In: Beermann, W. (eds) Developmental Studies on Giant Chromosomes. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37164-9_3

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