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IN the present work I have determined the weakest, link in an insect life-cycle and related this to the quantitative differences between the sterility and lethality doses when virgin females were irradiated at various developmental stages. The wasp used is known in genetic literature as Habrobracon juglandis (Ashmead). The females were chosen since it was believed that a non-sterile female would normally live and copulate with a son and afterwards produce both males and females. Critical stages for exposure were selected at significant changes in somatic and/or gonadic differentiation.
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ERDMAN, H. Divergence between Lethal Doses and Sterilizing Doses of X-Rays with Progressive Development in Habrobracon Females. Nature 186, 254–255 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186254b0
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