| evaluation of the genotoxicity potential (by mutatox test) of ten pesticides found as water pollutants in cyprus. | ten pesticides: aldicarb, aldicard sulfone, aldicarb oxide, carbofuran, propoxur, methomyl, diuron, linuron, alachlor and parathion-methyl, found as water pollutants in cyprus, were evaluated for their genotoxicity potential with the mutatox test, both directly and after exogenous activation with s9 hepatic enzymes. a dark variant (m 169) of the photobacterium phosphoreum was used as the test organism. trials were undertaken in triplicate using ground-water spiked with pesticides solutions at te ... | 1996 | 9111768 |