Mutagenicity of the triazine herbicides atrazine, cyanazine, and simazine in drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 691-697

  Murnik, Mary Rengo ^a   Nash, Claudia L ^a  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AATREX 80 W; ATRAZINE; CHEMICAL MUTAGEN; CYANAZINE; HERBICIDE; PRINCEP 80 W; SIMAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROPOD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG TOXICITY; INTOXICATION; LETHAL GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; SEX LINKAGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ATRAZINE; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, LETHAL; HERBICIDES, TRIAZINE; LARVA; MUTAGENS; SIMAZINE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0017699779     PISSN: 00984108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287397709529603     Document Type: Article

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