In:
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 32, No. 1-2 ( 1977-2-1), p. 125-132
Abstract:
Attempts to substantiate irreversible actions of a variety of magnetic fields on the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, have been successful and unsuccessful in about equal numbers. The most conspicuous mutagenic effects apparently induced by pulsed H F-fields failed to appear under continuous electromagnetic irradiation. This seems to correlate the observed damage with the VLF-components of the pulsed fields. The present investigation is motivated by the occurrence of these components both in the atmosphere and in the vicinity of electrical appliances. A strain of normally viable wild type males and subnormally viable Attached-X γ ω females was used in which the yield, and the sex ratio, of the progeny indicate, respectively, the extent of developmental damage and of sex-linked recessive lethal mutation induced by the exposure to detrimental conditions. Evaluation of 73,800 flies from subsequent generations of a control group and two test groups raised in steady, or rotating, homogeneous 9.6 kHz magnetic fields of about 2.5 G did not reveal any development of hereditare load in the test groups.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1865-7125
,
0939-5075
DOI:
10.1515/znc-1977-1-220
Language:
English
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
1977
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2078107-6
SSG:
12
