Chemosterilant Studies on Bracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Sperm. I. Sperm Inactivation and Dominant Lethal Mutations
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 61 (1) , 164-173
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/61.1.164
Abstract
Eight chemosterilants were investigated to determine whether they produced sterility by the induction of dominant lethal mutations, sperm inactivation, or both. Although the compounds varied considerably in effectiveness as sterilizers, all produced dominant lethal mutations in the sperm. Tretamine and metepa produced complete sterility without any evidence of sperm inactivation. Such chemosterilants as tepa and its analogs produced significant amounts of sperm inactivation.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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