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Genetic effects of balloon flight in Drosophila melanogaster
M C Giess1, C Prudhommeau, J Proust
1Laboratoire de Biologie Medicale, Faculte de Medecin, Toulouse (France).
Life Sciences and Space Research
|January 1, 1978
Abstract:
Drosophila males were flown in balloons and crossed, after recovery, in order to investigate possible genetic effects of cosmic rays. No significant effect was observed in the lethal and dominant mutation rate.