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FlyBase ID
FBrf0057306
Publication Type
Research paper
Abstract
The present study was carried out to evaluate the mutagenicity of tritium, administered as tritiated water, in Drosophila melanogaster. Larvae were fed on tritium-treated medium during their development. Germinal and somatic mutation induction was detected by means of the sex-linked recessive lethal and the wing spot tests, respectively. Our results show that beta-radiation from tritium is able to induce significant increases in the frequency of both germinal and somatic mutations.
