DDVP(dichlorvos, 2, 2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate), the organophoso phorus pesticide, was fed to the Drosophila melanogaster complex in order to investigate its toxic capacity at development of D. melanogaster larvae and four species adults of th...
DDVP(dichlorvos, 2, 2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate), the organophoso phorus pesticide, was fed to the Drosophila melanogaster complex in order to investigate its toxic capacity at development of D. melanogaster larvae and four species adults of the D. melanogaster complex(D. mauritiana, D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechellia). And the potency of DDVP for the induction of the X-linked lethal and somatic chromosomal mutations of D. melanogaster was studied. For these purposes, an attached-X method for germinal cell level and a wing hairs spot test system(mwh/flr system) for somatic cell level were appllied. DDVP was highly toxic on the development of D. melanogaster, resulting in of lowering the viability and in prolongation of the developmental time. The order of mortality causing adult stage feeding to DDVP in the D. melanogaster complex was like this; D. simulans, D. mauritiana, D. sechellia and D. melanogaster. The effect on the sex-linked lethal mutagenesis using an attached-X method was found to be negative. But the frequency of small single mwh spots due to terminal deletion or gene mutation on chromosome 3 in the transheterozygouse(mwh +/+ flr) larvae treated with DDVP were slightly higher than the control group.