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Mutator genes—pacemakers of evolution

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Initially a genetic oddity, male recombination in Drosophila melanogaster is now being viewed as a means of detecting mutator activity and chromosome breakage in hybridising populations and is causing us to reconsider the source and rate at which genetic variability may be generated in nature.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019

    James N. Thompson Jr

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    R. C. Woodruff

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