This paper focuses on the famous “Fallaci interviews”, which are an example of what has been defined as “journalit” (Krim 1970), i.e., a non-fictional practice that is based real events but still uses resources fiction and permeated by inventions creative licenses (Castellana 2021; Mongelli 2015). Fallaci skilled playwright who knows how to “write journalistic piece means story journalism” (Ari...

The occurrence and patterns of linkage disequilibrium between an inversion and allozymic loci within it or nearby have been used in attempts to discriminate among different hypotheses for the maintenance of variability. The interpretation of the data on the best-documented case, that of the nonrandom association between In(2L)t and a-Gpdh or Adh in the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogast...

PROBLEMS of genetic regulation have received increasing attention in recent years and controlling mechanisms are being elucidated with great rapidity. One such problem, that of dosage compensation, was originally defined in Drosophila, and, for nearly thirty years, its mechanism of action has remained open to question. The term “dosage compensation” indicates that, for sex-linked genes which di...

We examined the behavior of an autosomal recessive maternal-effect mutation, abnormal-oocyte (abo), that is located in the euchromatin of the left arm of chromosome 2. When homozygous in females, abo results in a marked reduction in the probability that an egg produced by a mutant mother will develop into an adult. However, this probability is increased if the fertilizing sperm delivers to the ...