The Effects of Radium in Producing Lethal Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster
- 3 August 1928
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 68 (1753) , 115-116
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.68.1753.115
Abstract
A preliminary paper announcing that radium rays produce lethal mutations in D. melanogaster. 423 control pairs of flies gave no lethals; 426 pairs exposed to 150 mg. pure radium gave 8.2% lethals; 426 pairs treated with gamma x-rays only gave 2.8% lethals. This is the first step in distinguishing which elements in radium are responsible for results obtained.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Artificial Transmutation of the GeneScience, 1927