Assaying potential carcinogens with Drosophila.
Drosophila offers many advantages for the detection of mutagenic activity of carcinogenic agents. It provides the quickest assay system for detecting mutations in animals today. Its generation time is short, and Drosophila is cheap and easy to breed in large numbers. The simple genetic testing metho...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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1976
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475152/ |