Mutagenicity of sodium azide and its metabolite azidoalanine in Drosophila melanogaster

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 469, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 253-257

  Sadiq, May F ^a   Owais, Wajih M ^a,b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Sex linked recessive lethal; Sodium azide

Indexed keywords

AZIDOALANINE; SODIUM AZIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LETHAL GENE; MALE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; SEX LIMITATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; AZIDES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MUTAGENS; SODIUM AZIDE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034692612     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(00)00079-6     Document Type: Article

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