ABSTRACT
Drosophila embryos were treated at specific stages during early embryogenesis with various doses of X-irradiation. The lethality at various times during development was established and pattern defects in the adults noted. It was observed that the most sensitive stages of embryogenesis to X-ray-induced lethality were also the stages where most morpho-logical defects were found in the adults which emerged. This suggests that presumptive larval and adult cells are sensitive to X-rays at the same stages of embryogenesis.
copyright © 1977 by Company of Biologists
1977
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