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Assessment of mutagenicity of water from Lake Sevan, Armenia with application of Tradescantia (clone 02).
Mutation research - 1 Aug 2017
Avalyan R E, Aghajanyan E A, Khosrovyan A, Atoyants A L, Simonyan A E, Aroutiounian R M
Abstract excerpt
For many decades water resources in Armenia have been affected by anthropogenic activity, therefore, a regular bioindication of genotoxic effects of the water bodies is desirable. The genotoxicity of water samples collected from different parts of Lake Sevan were assessed by means of Trad-SHM (stamen hair mutation) assay using Tradescantia (clone 02). Here we report a significant increase in the frequency of...
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