Abstract:Indiscriminate use of pesticides in agricultural practices has developed its toxicity in
humans and animals exposed to it. Malathion is a non-systemic insecticide belonging
to organophosphate class. It is used in controlling Mediterranean flies, bugs, and
aphids in fields. The present study was aimed to evaluate the malathion induced
genotoxicity in Internal transcribed spacer, ITS 1 and 2 sequences of rDNA of
mosquito, Anopheles stephensi. For this, second instar larvae of mosquito were
exposed to 2.54 ppm (L… Show more
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