Mutagenic Potential of Permethrin in the Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Sex-Linked Recessive Lethal Test
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 83 (3) , 721-724
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/83.3.721
Abstract
When permethrin was tested for mutagenicity in Drosophila melanogaster Meigen with the sex-linked recessive lethal test, it was nonmutagenic under conditions of this study. The frequencies of spontaneous mutation for permethrin and the negative control were 0.135% and 0.133%, respectively; the spontaneous mutation frequency for positive control was 12.6%. The difference between the mutation frequency of permethrin and the negative control was not significant.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: