title: Chemical mutagenesis testing in Drosophila. V. Results of 53 coded compounds tested for the National Toxicology Program.
abstract: Fifty-three chemicals were tested for mutagenicity in Drosophila melanogaster by adult feeding and, where results were negative, by adult injection for the induction of sex-linked recessive lethal mutations in meiotic and postmeiotic germ cell stages of Canton-S males. One compound was tested by inhalation. Those compounds that induced lethal mutations were tested further for the induction of reciprocal translocations. Seventeen of the 53 compounds (acetaldehyde, 2-aminoanthracene, bromoform, t-butyl hydroperoxide, chlorambucil, trans-cinnamaldehyde, crotonaldehyde, 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, 3,4-dichloronitrobenzene, dimethoxane, 2,4-dinitrotoluene, 1,2-epoxy-3,3,3-trichloropropane, formaldehyde, furfural, halothane, HC yellow 4, and picric acid) were found to induce lethal mutations and three (2-aminoanthracene, chlorambucil,and crotonaldehyde) also induced reciprocal translocations.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002273:Carcinogens; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D005804:Genes, Lethal; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009153:Mutagens; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D014960:X Chromosome
chemical_list: D002273:Carcinogens; D009153:Mutagens