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Alexandra A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya (1903–1984) Her Life and Contribution to Cytogenetics

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Alexandra Alexeyevna Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya, a world-famous cytogeneticist made great contributions to the research on the fine structure of eukaryotic chromosomes. Her achievements in studying heterochromatic regions of polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster and in solving the problems of gene-to-chromomere relations and mutagenesis were outstanding. During the last 25 years of her activity, she worked with great success on problems of human cytogenetics.

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Bogdanov, Y.F., Liapunova, N.A. (1994). Alexandra A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya (1903–1984) Her Life and Contribution to Cytogenetics. In: Obe, G. (eds) Advances in Mutagenesis Research. Advances in Mutagenesis Research, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78193-3_3

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