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The effects of ingested EDTA on radiation recovery and induction of embryo dominant lethals was studied in the wasp Rabrobracon. It was found that recovery from temporary sterility induced by x irradiation was retarded in those females which had ingested a meal of the chelating agent prior to the radiation treatment. The amount of dominant lethality induced in the germ cells of irradiated females was significantly increased by treatment with a chelating agent. (auth)
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Leo E. LaChance (1959) studied this question.
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