Continued high incidence of mutants in a Peruvian population of mice.

Abstract excerpt

A second trapping of wild mice from two sites in a Peruvian river valley confirms the unprecedented high mutant incidence established by a previous trapping. It also shows that the population may be localized. The new mutants are different from those found in the first trapping, and thus indicate a continued source of mutagenic activity either external or within the gene pool of the population. A third study is...

Topics

• Animals
• DDT
• Environmental Exposure
• Female
• Genes, Recessive
• Male
• Mice
• Mutagens
• Mutation
• Peru