Drosophila Melanogaster as a Test-System for Assessment of the Air Pollution by Using the City of Kazan as an Example
Rustam Sokolov,
Viktoria Kostenko,
Tansu Gazieva
et al.
Abstract:Drosophila as a model for toxicological study is a simple and effective test-system owing to (i) availability of a wide range of accessible methods allowing the integral assessment of the negative effect of the factor under study on the vital characteristics at all levels of the organism vital activity (from molecular to population), (ii) possibility of obtaining results within a relatively short period of time (from 2 days to 2 weeks); (iii) low price of working methods, (iv) absence of specific requirements … Show more
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