Portugaliae Acta Biologica - 1949 A Cytophysiological Theory of the Gene, Gene Mutation
and Position Effect
J. A. Serra
Secção de Zoologia-Anthropologia, Faculdade de Ciências.
Universidade, Coimbra
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