The phrase "a lethal effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the harmful or deadly consequences of something on a particular subject or entity.
Example: "The new pesticide has a lethal effect on certain insect populations, leading to a significant decline in their numbers."
Alternatives: "a deadly impact on" or "a fatal consequence for".
A lethal effect on the breast cancer cells was achieved beyond 4 min of continuous exposure of NIR laser light with 650 mW power.
When repeating the feeding experiments with the Bt toxin Cry1Ab using a combined protocol of both previous studies, again, a lethal effect on A. bipunctata larvae was observed.
Here, we show that given a sufficient dose, the invasion of seemingly nontoxic GNPs can have a lethal effect on mice.
Various studies revealed a lethal effect on human health due to direct contact, including the risk of leukaemia, leucopenia, kidney damage, and even genetic disorders (Prakash et al. 2013).
The temperature plays a major role in aquatic environment which is very high in sugar mill effluent (36 °C) that has a lethal effect on the diversity of the aquatic environment.
Heavy metals are well-known hazardous pollutants which show a lethal effect on biological cycles of aquatic species due to changes in the conformational configuration of nucleic acids, proteins, and osmotic balance (Sivakumar et al. 2012).
Angel burn is a lethal effect of angels on humans when they feed from them.
We observed a lethal effect of injected Cry1Aa on adult male flies with ubiquitous expression of CryR (Fig. 7b).
A total of 250 mM NaCl was imposed for 20 days (once for five days) until a lethal effect was observed on most of the wild-type plants.
We conclude that the fungal VOCs we tested have a phytostatic (inhibitory), not a phytocidal (lethal) effect on seeds.
The finding that irradiation at a dose of 30 kGy exerted a seemingly lethal effect on the NB present in FBS was deemed significant since, according to the NB proponents, all body fluids, including serum, harbor the ability to develop NB when incubated under appropriate cell culture conditions [6] [8] observations that have led in turn to claims for a ubiquitous presence for NB in nature [41] [49].
