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DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE June 198S DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 61 June 198S 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 61 June 1985 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 1985 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 61 DIS 61 - Table of Contents ERRATA .......................................................................................................................... 61:v ANNOUNCEMENTS and 26th ANNUAL DROSOPHILA CONFERENCE REPORT ....................... 61: vi FOREWORD TO DIS NUMBER 11, 1939 .................................................................................. 61: ix SPECIAL REPORTS ENGELS, W.R. Guidelines for P-element transposon tagging ..................................................... 61: 1 SIMMONS, M.J. and R.E. KARESS. Molecular and population biology of hybrid dysgenesis: A report of the meeting September 24-26, 1984, Cambridge, England . ........................... 61: 2 THOMPSON, V. Documentation of the electrophoresis revolution in Drosophila population genetics 61: 8 MERRIAM, J. Cloned DNA by chromosome location, May 4, 1985, Revised ................................ 61: 9 MERRIAM, J. Chromosome rearrangements available for "jumping" with one breakpoint known within a cloned sequence, May 31, 1984 [Corrections] .......................................... 61: 18 MERRIAM, J. Transformed lines available for cloning or deleting DNA at specific chromosome sites, May 4, 1985, Revised . ...................................................................... 61: 19 RESEARCH NOTES ALATORTSEV, V.E. and E.V. TOLCHKOV. Complementation analysis of rearrangements affecting the Sd-F region of the D.melanogaster X-chromosome . .................................... 61: 24 ALEXANDROV, I.D. Modification of radiation- induced rates of intra- and intergenic changes at the yellow locus of Drosophila melanogaster by the genotype, caffeine, actinomycin-D andradiation quality.................................................................................................... 61: 25 ANDRADE, C.A.C. and A.P. GUPTA. Studies on bristle number in hybrids between strains of D.capricorni from Brazil .......................................................................................... 61: 26 ANDREWS, K. and C. CHIHARA. An overproducer of a third instar urea-soluble cuticle protein in Drosophila melanogaster ................................................................................ 61: 27 BARKER, J.S.F. and D.K. FREDLINE. Reproductive biology of Drosophila buzzatii . .................. 61: 28 BEL, Y. and J. FERR. Regulation of eye-pigment metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster: effect of high doses of aromatic amino acids in the diet ................................................. 61: 32 BELOTE, J. and M. MCKEOWN. Post-replicative repair of an X-ray damaged chromosome following fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster .......................................................... 61: 33 BIERNIAUX, C., J. LECHIEN, E. DEPIEREUX and A. ELENS. Temperature and efficiency of a disruptive selection for phototactism . ................................................................... 61: 34 BIHARI, B. and J.P. GUPTA. Records of Drosophila species from three different areas ofMadhya Pradesh, India ............................................................................................. 61: 37 BOEREMA, A.C. and R. BIJLSMA. The effect of substituting artificial laboratory food byorange food on allgzyme polymorphisms . ................................................................... 61: 38 BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. Can crowding promote larval diapause in Drosophilids? ........ 61: 39 BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. A comparison of the urea and uric acid content between crowded and uncrowded cultures of D.melanogaster throughout development .................... 61: 40 CARRACEDO, M.C. and P. CASARES. Hybridization between Drosophila melanogaster and D.simulans in competition experiments ................................................................... 61: 41 CARRACEDO, M.C. and P. CASARES. A study on the dynamics of crossing between Drosophila melanogaster females and Drosophila simulans males .................................... 61: 42 CASARES, P. and M.C. CARRACEDO. Hybridization between sympatric and allopatric populations of Dr9sophila melanogaster and D.simulans . ................................................. 61: 44 CASTRO, J. and J.L. MENSUA. Effect of the seeding site on viability and developmental time of three genotypes of Drosophila melanogaster . ............................................................. 61: 45 CHANTEUX, B., J. LECHIEN, C. DERNONCOURT-STERPIN, M. LIBION-MANNAERT, S. WATTIAUX-DE CONINCK and A. ELENS. Ethanol metabolizing enzymes subce II u lar distribution in D.melanogaster flies homogenates ........................................... 61: 46 CHAPMAN, C.H. and P.M. BINGHAM. Evidence that the locus of a novel type of suppressor mutation regulates transcription of the white locus ....................................................... 61: 48 CHATTER JEE, R.N. Changes of DNA replication pattern of the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster resulting from chromosomal rearrangements ............................. 61: 50 CHATTER JEE, R.N. Effect of a-amanitin on the DNA synthesis in the polytene chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster . ......................................................................................... 61: 53 ii - DIS 61 TabLe of Contents June 1985 COLLINS, M.F. and J.K. HEWITT. Correlations between the elements of male courtship behavior in a series of inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster derived from the same population. 61: 55 COLLINS, M.F., J.K. HEWITT and J.F. GOGARTY. Time-sampling courtship behavior in Drosophilame lanogaster.............................................................................................. 61: 57 COOK, J.L. and D.T. KUHN. Spatial distribution of tuh abnormalities..................................... 61: 58 De FRUTOS, R. and L. PASCUAL. Weak points and ectopic pairing in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila subobscura . ............................................................................................ 61: 60 Del PUERTO, G.A., J.J. CULICH and C.J. CHIHARA. Last larval instar cuticle protein patterns and their use for the identification of twenty-one species of Drosophila.............. 61: 61 Di PASQUALE PALADINO, A., P. CAVOLINA and A. VELLA. Lack of response to selection for high and low penetrance in the tu-pb stock of Drosophila melanogaster . ..................... 61: 66 DOMINCUEZ, A. Location of a factor with effect on sternopleural bristle number in Drosophilamelanogaster . ............................................................................................. 61: 67 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K., D. MUTSUDDI and M. MUTSUDDI (DAS). Replication in X chromosomal segmentalaneuploids in Drosophila............................................................................... 61: 69 ENGELS, W.R. A set of P cytotype balancer stocks................................................................. 61: 70 FERRE, J., J.L. MENSUA and K.B. JACOBSON. Characterization of a novel quinoline in Drosophila melanogaster: xanthurenic acid 8-0- -D-glucoside . ...................................... 61: 71 FORD, S. and L. TOMPKINS. An assay to measure the consumption of attractants in solution. 61: 72 GARNETT, D.J. Detection of colour mutations in Drosophila by biochemical methods............... 61: 73 GARNETT, D.J. A new method of mutagen application to Drosophila eggs and larvae................ 61: 73 GAZARYAN, K.G., S.D. NABIROCHKIN and E.N. SHIVANOVA. Induction with high frequency of site-specific visible mutations in the MR-strain of D.melanogaster by DNA injected intothe polar plasm of early embryos........................................................................... 61: 73 GENOVA, G.K. and E.P. SEMIONOV. Unstably localized nucleoli in Drosophila melanogaster salivarygland cells in various stocks............................................................................. 61: 76 GERASIMOVA, T.I. and L.V. MATYUNINA. Simultaneous reversion of three unstable alleles atloci yellow, white, singed......................................................................................... 61: 77 GERASIMOVA, T.I. and L.V. MATYUNINA. Unstable mutations at the locus yellow induced bythe mobile element MDG2 . ...................................................................................... 61: 78 CHOSH, A.K. Transcriptional activity of an autosomal arm (2L) in trisomic condition in Drosophilamelanogaster . ............................................................................................ 61: 79 GHOSH, M., S. BANERJEE and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Activity of the X chromosome of the reinverted mosaic mutant larvae of D.melanogaster in in vitro culture............................ 61: 81 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. DNA replication in the X chromosome
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