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Nondisjunction of the B chromosome in maize has been considered to be controlled by heterochromatin in its long arm. Experiments reported here indicate that the control site actually lies in a short, relatively euchromatic segment distal to the major heterochromatin of the long arm.
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Edward J. Ward (1973) studied this question.
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