Evaluation of the database on mutant frequencies and DNA sequence alterations of vermilion mutations induced in germ cells of Drosophila shows the importance of a neutral mutation detection system

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-57

  Nivard, Madeleine J M ^a   Aguirrezabalaga, I ^b   Ballering, L A P ^a   Pastink, A ^a   Sierra, L M ^b   Vogel, E W ^a  

^a Dept Radiat Genet Chem M   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical mutagenesis; Clastogenicity; Drosophila melanogaster; Germ cells; Mutational analysis; Nucleotide excision repair; Vermilion gene

Indexed keywords

MERCURY SULFIDE; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; DNA ADDUCT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; MUTANT; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; TRYPTOPHAN OXYGENASE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033399449     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00156-6     Document Type: Article

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