Detection of transfluthrin and metofluthrin genotoxicity in the ST cross of the Drosophila Wing Spot Test.

In this study, different concentrations of transfluthrin and metofluthrin have been assayed for genotoxicity by using the Wing Spot Test on Drosophila melanogaster. Standard cross was used in the experiment. Third-instar larvae that were trans-heterozygous for the two genetic markers mwh and flr(3) were treated at different concentrations (0.0103mgmL(-1), 0.103mgmL(-1) for transfluthrin and 6μgmL(-1), 60μgmL(-1) for metofluthrin) of the test compounds. Feeding ended with pupation of the surviving larvae and the genetic changes induced in somatic cells of the wing's imaginal discs lead to the formation of mutant clones on the wing blade. Results indicated that two experimental concentrations of transfluthrin and 60μgmL(-1) metofluthrin showed mutagenic and recombinogenic effects in both the marker-heterozygous (MH) flies and the balancer-heterozygous (BH) flies.