The somatic white-ivory eye spot test does not detect the same spectrum of genotoxic events as the wing somatic mutation and recombination test in Drosophila melanogaster

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 219-226

  Graf, Ulrich ^a   Würgler, Friedrich E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Genotoxicily; Mutation; Recombination; Somatic cells

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; CAFFEINE; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; N NITROSOPYRROLIDINE; POTASSIUM CHROMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0029930281     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1996)27:3<219::AID-EM7>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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