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Science 16 August 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3842, pp. 694 - 696
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3842.694
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Drosophila melanogaster Treated with LSD: Absence of Mutation and Chromosome Breakage

Dale Grace 1, Elof Axel Carlson 1, and Philip Goodman 2

1 Department of Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles
2 School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles

Injection of lysergic acid diethylamide in Drosophila melanogaster males induced no mutations or chromosome breaks in premeiotic, meiotic, or postmeiotic sperm. Tests included those for sex-linked lethals, sex-linked visibles, a specific visible (dumpy), and translocations. Some implications of these experiments are discussed.


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