Genotoxic Effects of Chlorpyrifos in Freshwater Fish Cirrhinus mrigala Using Micronucleus Assay

Table 4

Incidence of broken egg as nuclear anomaly in peripheral erythrocytes of Cirrhinus mrigala exposed to different concentrations of chlorpyrifos.

Exposure time	Broken egg
	T1		T2		T3		T4
	Number of cells with BE	BE Freq (%) ± SE	Number of cells with BE	BE Freq (%) ± SE	Number of cells with BE	BE Freq (%) ± SE	Number of cells with BE	BE Freq (%) ± SE
Day 2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Day 4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Day 8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Day 14	—	—	22	0.733 ± 0.08	28	0.933 ± 0.08	52	1.733 ± 0.14
Day 21	—	—	17	0.566 ± 0.03	23	0.766 ± 0.12	26	0.866 ± 0.12
Day 28	—	—	—	—	7	0.230 ± 0.12	9	0.450 ± 0.12
Day 35	—	—	—	—	9	0.300 ± 0.05	—	—

Values with different capital alphabet superscripts differ significantly () within the same column.
Values with different small alphabet superscripts differ significantly () within the same row.