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ANDREW1 reported that caffeine is mutagenic for the Drosophila male when administered either by a larval feeding or by an adult injection method. Yanders and Seaton2 later repeated these experiments, and found no indication of a mutagenic effect for caffeine by either method of administration. As far as the present communication is concerned, the interest of these reports lies in the conflicting results of the larval feeding treatments.
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ALDERSON, T., KHAN, A. Caffeine-induced Mutagenesis in Drosophila. Nature 215, 1080–1081 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151080b0
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