Fig. 3

The relationship between mutagenicity and apoptosis in third instar larvae of wild-type (mwh/flr) treated with chemical mutagens as described in the Materials and Methods. The numbers of stained clusters were taken from Tables 1, 2, and 3. (A) The numbers of clusters per wing disc at 12 h post-treatment. (B) The total numbers of clusters per wing were integrated from the data from 0 to 24 h post-treatment. R² is the correlation coefficient of the linear approximation. When the approximate curves were drawn from the scatter diagrams after the removal of the data for 10 mM MNU (toxic dose), the R² was 0.9155 at 12 h post-treatment, and 0.904 for the 24-h integrated data