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IT has been shown that the adult life span is reduced when young mice are irradiated with X-rays1 and when the parasitoid wasp, Habrobracon, is irradiated during the immature stages of its life cycle2–4. Lamb and Maynard Smith5 recently reviewed the reduction of insect life spans by radiation and postulated that radiations shorten life by inducing mutations in somatic cells. When the young pupa is irradiated, it might be expected that any lethal effect of alteration of genetic material due to radiation would be eliminated during the subsequent developmental crises (stages) instead of occurring after the adult stage had successfully developed.
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ERDMAN, H. Effects of X-rays on Metamorphosis and Adult Life Span of Flour Beetles. Nature 211, 1427–1428 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111427b0
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