Open AccessEffect of X-radiation on the spermatogenesis of Lepisma domestica
Author(s) -
R. N. Mukerji
Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1929.0054
Subject(s) - spermatogenesis , mendelian inheritance , biology , drosophila (subgenus) , heredity , germ cell , botany , genetics , gene , endocrinology
Following Gatenby and Wigoder's (7) work on the effect of X-radiation on the spermatogenesis of Cavia, it was considered of interest to study the changes produced in irradiation inLepisma domestica , the normal spermatogenesis of which has already been described in two papers (8, 17). So far little attempt has been made to study the effect of X-radiation on insects, which have long been the chief material used for the study of the various cell-inclusions in a germ-cell. The small amount of work, which has been done, is on the fruit-fly Drosophila (Muller, 14, 15, 16) and the wasp, Hydrobracon (Whiting, 31). Muller (14, 15, 16), working on X-rayed Drosophilia, has produced mutations which observed the laws of Mendelian heredity. Similar variation were induced in barley and may be stadler (2e, 27, 2s) and on species of Nicotiana by Goodspeed and Olson (9).