“…There has been an increasing interest towards the use of micronuclei as an index of cytogenetic damage in fish and other marine organisms exposed to a variety of toxic and genotoxic pollutants under laboratory (Al-Sabti, 1986a,b;Al-Sabti, 1994;Al-Sabti et al, 1994;Al-Sabti, 1995b;Burgeot et al, 1995;Venier et al, 1997;Marlasca et al, 1998) and field conditions (Al-Sabti & Hardig, 1990;Al-Sabti, 1992a,b;Burgeot et al, 1996a;Rao et al, 1997). Micronuclei detection assay has been employed in genotoxicity studies carried out in invertebrates (Brunetti et al, 1992;Burgeot et al, 1995Burgeot et al, , 1996bVenier et al, 1997), fish (Al-Sabti et al, 1994;Al-Sabti, 1995b;Rao et al, 1997;Marlasca et al, 1998) and humans (Fenech et al, 1994;Vral et al, 1994). Currently, MN detection represents a widely used parameter, easily performed, which also allows molecular approaches in studying the effects of many clastogenic or aneugenic agents (Venier et al, 1997).…”