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Experimental Protocol for Using Drosophila As an Invertebrate Model System for Toxicity Testing in the Laboratory
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Experimental Protocol for Using Drosophila As an Invertebrate Model System for Toxicity Testing in the Laboratory
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06:00 min

July 10, 2018

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  • 00:04Title
  • 00:33Preparations
  • 01:49Rearing Drosophila on Contaminated Medium and Measuring Contaminants
  • 04:03Results: Effects of Lead Exposure
  • 05:14Conclusion

Summary

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In this paper, we provide a detailed protocol for exposing species in the genus Drosophila to pollutants with the goal of studying the impact of exposure on a range of phenotypic outputs at different developmental stages and for more than one generation.

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