Genetic sexing inDrosophila melanogaster
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A. S. Robinson; C. Heemert
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Article
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1981
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Springer
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English
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By incorporating ethanol (4% v/v) into the larval rearing medium of a specially constructed Drosophila melanogaster strain it was possible to produce only male adults; the female larvae died.In this strain, the male determining chromosome was linked with a positive Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) allele