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Abstract
We developed a test system with mutant strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requiring arginine. Here, the meiotic recombination between two arginine loci served as an indicator of genotoxicity. After crossing, zygotes were treated with the alkylating agent dimethyl-nitrosamine (DMN) for 30 min. A dose dependent increase of wild type recombinants was found for DMN concentrations ranging from 68 microM to 680 microM. Like in cells of some higher plants, the agent was active in Chlamydomonas zygotes without any exogenous metabolic activation.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 3442822 DOI: 10.1007/BF00418412
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Genet ISSN: 0172-8083 Impact factor: 3.886