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Ethyl methanesulfonate: an effective mutagen inChlamydomonas reinhardi

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The effectiveness of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) as a mutagen inChlamydomonas reinhardi has been demonstrated in two different systems: reversion to prototrophy of an argine-requiring strain and forward mutation to auxotrophy of the wild-type strain. In these experiments, the toxic effect of EMS was very low. With certain batches of EMS, an unusually high toxicity was observed. In this case, the lethal effects seem to be attributable to the presence of minor impurities in EMS.

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  1. Laboratory of Genetics, University of Liège, Belgium

    R. Loppes

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Communicated byC. Auerbach

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Loppes, R. Ethyl methanesulfonate: an effective mutagen inChlamydomonas reinhardi . Molec. Gen. Genet. 102, 229–231 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385978

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