[Normal development of the fruitfly Drosophila in VLF magnetic fields (author's transl)].
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 HF-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 y w 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 of 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 developmental or hereditarc load in the test groups. (Pressman 1970; Mittler 1973).
D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000254:growth & development*; D005260:Female; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D010507:Periodicity; D012098:Reproduction; D012744:Sex Ratio; D013696:Temperature
Normale Entwicklung der Fliege Drosophila in Niederfrequenten Magnetfeldern