The joy of balancers.

Balancer chromosomes are multiply inverted and rearranged chromosomes that are widely used in Drosophila genetics. First described nearly 100 years ago, balancers are used extensively in stock maintenance and complex crosses. Recently, the complete molecular structures of several commonly used balan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Danny E Miller, Kevin R Cook, R Scott Hawley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008421