“…The genotoxic and/or cytotoxic potential of some Type II pyrethroid insecticides such as cyfluthrin [Tisch et al, 2005], cypermethrin [Amer and Aboul-Ela, 1985;Bhunya and Pati, 1988;Amer et al, 1993;Chauhan et al, 1997Chauhan et al, , 1999Hadnagy et al, 1999;Institóris et al, 1999;Giri et al, 2003;Patel et al, 2006;Suman et al, 2006], deltamethrin [Agarwal et al, 1994;Surrallés et al, 1995;Gandhi et al, 1995;Villarini et al, 1998], fenvalerate [Pati and Bhunya, 1989;Puig et al, 1989;Surrallés et al, 1990;Caballo et al, 1992;Ghosh et al, 1992;Giri et al, 2002], and k-cyhalothrin [Campana et al, 1999;Ç elik et al, 2003, 2005a, 2005bNaravaneni and Jamil, 2005] has been shown in previous studies.…”