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Drosophila Information Service - - DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE Material contributed by DROSOPHILA WORKERS and arranged by P. W. HEDRICK Material presented here should not be used in publications without the consent of the author. Prepared at the DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - USA DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE Number 63 Including the Special Report: THE MOLECULAR GENOME OF Drosophila melanogaster: Catalogs of cloned DNA, breakpoints and transformed inserts by chromosome location. by J. Merriam, S. Smalley, A. Merriam and B. Dawson Department of Biology University of California at Los Angeles June 1986 Prepared at the Division of Biological Sciences University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - USNA Publication costs are partially funded by NSF Grant BSR-8420293 to R.C. Woodruff. For information regarding submission of manuscripts or other contributions to Drosophila Information Service, contact P.W. Hedrick, Editor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - USA. June 1986 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 63 DIS 63 - Table of Contents ANNOUNCEMENTS and 27th ANNUAL DROSOPHILA CONFERENCE REPORT ......................... 63: V INDEX TO THE TECHNICAL NOTES: 1960-1986 ..................................................................... 63: RESEARCH NOTES ACHARY, P.M. and C.C. DAS. Evaluation of Hydroxyurea as an in vivo synchronizing agent of DNA replication on the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila . ..................................... 63: 11 ADELL, J.C. and L.M. BOTELLA. Effect of crowding in cultures of lethal (2) giant larvae . ........ 63: 12 ADELL, J.C. and L.M. BOTELLA. Effect of long-term competition on development of Drosophila melanogaster . ......................................................................................... 63: 13 ALAHIOTIS, S.N. and G.N. GOULIELMOS. Fertile F1 males and females from crosses between Drosophila mauritiana females and D.melanogaster or D.simulans males . ......................... 63: 14 ALBERS, K.B.M. and R. BIJLSMA. Selection for increase in tolerance with respect to xenobiotics in Drosophila melanogaster . .................................................................... 63: 15 ALCORTA-AZCUE, E., E. GARCIA-VAZQUEZ and F. SANCHEZ-REFUSTA. Influence of the altitude in Asturian communities of Drosophilidae . ........................................................ 63: 17 ALEXANDROV, I.D. Modification of radiation-induced rates of intra- and inter-genic changes at the black locus of Drosophila melanogaster by the genotype, caffeine, actinomycin-D, sodium fluoride and radiation quality . .......................................................................... 63: 19 ALEXANDROVA, M.V. Genetic and cytogenetic mapping of the chromosome rearrangement breakpoints induced by high- and low-LET radiations around theblack locus of D.melanogaster . .............................................................................. 63: 21 AL-TA WEEL, A.A. The frequency of spontaneous and induced recessive lethals in the sex chromosome of the Drosophila melanogaster wild type from Iraq . .................................... 63: 23 ANTONIOU, A., M. CORBIERE and G. VAYSSE. Influences on courtship and copulation of space and photoperiod during the first week of the male imago-life . ............................ 63: 23 BAND, H.T. Emergence of D.simulans and other Drosophila from a variety of fruit/nut substrates. 63: 25 BAND, H.T. Evidence that Drosophila oviposit on ripe and rotting fruits on trees . ..................... 63: 26 BAND, H.T. Occurrence of three chymomyzid species at Mt. Lake Biological Station in Virginia. 63: 26 BAND, H.T., A.M. GONZALEZ and R.N. BAND. Comparison of the two numbering systems for the larval hemolymph proteins of Drosophila melanogaster . ...................................... 63: 27 BASHKIROV, V.N., M.Sh. KUBANEISHV ILl, M.E. YALAKAS and N.G. SCHUPPE. Unstable redundancy of 18S and 28S rRNA genes in D.melanogaster . ............................... 63: 29 BELO, M., M.J.D. CUNHA, M.E. HUNCH and S.M. CAR DOSO. Crosses with two D.ananassae strains. 63: 31 BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. Arrested development in second and third larval instars of D.melanogaster in highly crowded cultures . .......................................... 63: 31 BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. Effect of the deficiencies in essential nutrients on the development of D.melanogaster stopped larvae . .................................................. 63: 33 BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. Selection for faster and slower mean developmental time in crowded cultures of Drosophila melanogaster . ................................................... 63: 35 CAPY, P. and J. ROUAULT. Sampling on decaying fruit of Opuntia . ........................................ 63: 36 CARRACEDO, M.C., E. SAN MIGUEL, P. CASARES and M.T. ALVAREZ. More on sexual isolation between D.melanogaster females and D.simulans males: Female receptivity and hybridization . .......................................................................... 63: 38 CASARES, P. and M.C. CARRACEDO. The influence of sex and duration of larval development on pupation behavior of Drosophila . ................................................. 63: 39 CASARES, P., E. SAN MIGUEL and M.C. CARRACEDO. A preliminary study on the number of larval denticles in Drosophila . ............................................................ 63: 40 CHANDRASHEKARAN, S. and R.P. SHARMA. A new dominant temperature sensitive lethal induced on the SM5 balancer In(2LR) a1 2Cy It" cn 2 sp2 chromosome . ..................... 63: 41 CHARLES-PALABOST, L. Alleles found at six gene-enzyme systems in the French natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster . ................................................. 63: 43 COYNE, J.A. Further evidence for X-Y interactions in the control of the Stellate locus . ........... 63: 44 DI PASQUALE PALADINO, A. P. CAVOLINA and G. ROMANO. Analysis of larval hemocytes in the melanotic tumor mutant tu-pb of Drosophila melanogaster . .................. 63 : 45 DUNKOV, B.H. and K.H. RALCHEV. Genetic localization of gene controlling one of diaphorases in D.virilis . ...................................................................................... 63: 47 DIS 63 - Table of Contents June 1986 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K. and S. DE. Transcriptive activity of X-chromosome i n D.virilis, D.americana and in their hybrid.................................................................. 63: 48 FARMER, J.L. and D.J. FAIRBANKS. Interaction of the bw and w loci in D.melanogaster . ........ 63: 50 FORD, S.C. A comparison of the genitalia of D.melanogaster and D.affinis males and females. 63: 52 GALISSIE, M. C. ABRAVANEL and C. VAYSSE. Consequences on the serotonin level in Drosophila melanogaster of an alimentary chronical pharmacological treatment.......... 63: 53 GARCIA-AGUSTIN, M.P., M.J. MART INEZ-SEBASTIAN and J.L. MENSUA. Possible bobbed alleles in a line of Drosophila subobscura selected for low abdominal bristle number......... 63: 54 GARCIA-VAZQUEZ, E. and J. RUBIO. Chromosomic analysis of two lines of selection.............. 63: 55 GARCIA-VAZQUEZ, E. and J. RUBTO. Phenotypic variation of the bristles between Asturian populations of D.melanogaster . .......................................................... 63: 57 GHOSH, A.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Catalase activity in trisomy for the whole left arm of third chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster . ................................... 63: 58 GHOSH, A.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Replication behaviour of trisomy for 2Land 3L arm in Drosophila melanogaster . .................................................................. 63: 59 CHOSH, M. Characterization of nucleolar chromatin thread (NCT) insalivary gland cells of Drosophila melanogaster . ........................................................ 63: 60 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Nucleolar chromatin thread in different mutant stocks of Drosophila hydei . ................................................................. 63: 62 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Nucleolar chromatin thread (NCT) i n different mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster . ................................................. 63: 63 GRAF, U. Temperature effect on mwh expression in the wing somatic mutation and recombination test in Drosophila melanogaster . ...................................................... 63: 65 HOLLIDAY, M. and J. HIRSCH. Individual differences in conditionability . ................................ 63: 66 ISLAM, M.S., M.A.R. KHAN, P.C. BARMAN and S.I. AL!. Effect of copper and ferrous sulphates on offspring production in Drosophila melanogaster . ............................. 63: 68 JACQUEMIN, F., M. CEREGHETTI, M. LICHTENBERGER and A. ELENS. "Rare type advantage", hour, and intensity light............................................................ 63: 69 KALISCH, W.-E. The EM band-interband pattern of SSP chromosomes i n D.subobscura: Division 100A - D............................................................................... 63: 72 KANINGINI, M., J. LECHIEN and A. ELENS. Blind flies and normal flies tested for phototactism. 63: 73 KANINGINI, M., J. LECHIEN, M. LICHTENBERGER and A. ELENS. The measure of the "rare male mating advantage." 63: 74 KNOPPIEN, P. Low density storage enhances mating speed in Drosophila melanogaster . ............ 63: 76 KORTIER, M.G. and M.H. GROMKO. The effect of esterase-6 izenotvoe on productivity........... 63: 77 KUMAR, A.. and J.P. GUPTA. Inversion polymorphism in Drosophila nasuta
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