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Accumulation of drastic mutants in selection lines for resistance to the insecticides dichlorvos and malathion inDrosophila melanogaster

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Viability tests were performed on second and third chromosomes from lines ofDrosophila melanogaster selected for increased resistance to the organophosphorus insecticides dichlorvos and malathion, in order to evaluate the accumulation of drastic alleles. Our results show that malathion reduces significantly the relative viability of chromosome 3 and also increases the frequency of drastic alleles in this chromosome, while dichlorvos increases significnatly the frequency of drastic alleles in chromosome 2.

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  1. Unitat de Genética, Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    A. Velázquez, H. Andreu, N. Xamena, A. Creus & R. Marcos

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Work supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Grant No. 0577/84 CAICYT).—We are grateful to Productos Cruz Verde S.A. and Agrocrós S.A. for generously supplying the insecticides dichlorvos and malathion, respectively.

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Velázquez, A., Andreu, H., Xamena, N. et al. Accumulation of drastic mutants in selection lines for resistance to the insecticides dichlorvos and malathion inDrosophila melanogaster. Experientia 43, 1122–1123 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956059

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