The Effects of Increasing X-Ray Voltages on the Production of Lethal Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster
- 1 March 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 65 (697), 134-143
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280355
Abstract
The mutation rate increases with the increase of x-ray voltages from 40-99KV. The secondary [beta]-rays are responsible for the mutations.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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