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Drosophila Information Service .. ......... DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE Number 60 June 1984 Prepared at the Division of Biological Sciences University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - USNA Pub] ftjtion costs are partly funded by NSF Grant BSR840758 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 198 14 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 60 DIS 60 - Table of Contents 60: v ERRATA ....................................... ANNOUNCEMENTS and 25th ANNUAL DROSOPHILA CONFERENCE REPORT ............. 60: vi SPECIAL REPORTS MERRIAM, J. Cloned DNA by chromosome location, May 22, 19814 ............. 60: 1 MERRIAM, J. Chromosome rearrangements available for ''jumping' with one breakpoint known within a cloned sequence, May 31, 19814 ........ 60: 10 MERRIAM, J. Transformed lines available for cloning or deleting DNA at specific chromosome sites, May 25, 19814 ........... 60: 13 TREAT-CLEMONS, L.G. and W.W. DOANE. Biochemical loci of the ''fruit fly'' (Drosophila melanogaster) ...................... 60: 17 RESEARCH NOTES ACHARY, P.M.R., P.K. DUTTA and A.K. DUTTAGUPTA. Repl icon properties of Drosophila genome. I. DNA fibre autoradiography of salivary gland 143 cells held at the mid-part of S-phase ...................... 60: ALBORNOZ, J. A new allele (Hr) at the Hairless locus of Drosophila melanogaster. 60: 1414 ALEXANDROV, I.D. Comparative genetics of neutron- and y-ray-induced lethal b, cn and vg mutations in D.melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: 145 ALONSO, A. and A. MUNOZ. Biometric characterization of some wing measurement in Drosophila melanogaster ................ 60: 147 ALONSO, A., A. RABASCO and A. MUNOZ. Allele frequencies distribution at the Est-C locus in win cellar populations of Drosophila melanogaster ........... 60: 149 ALONSO, A., A. RODERO and A. MUNOZ. Study of seven wing measurements and of esterase-6 locus in Drosophila melanogaster ............... 60: 50 ARNASON, E. and G.K. CHAMBERS. Substrate specificity of esterases in D.pseudoobscura and D.melanogaster, with notes on the tissue localization of Esterase-5 : 52 inD.pseudoobscura ............................... 60 BAKER, W.K., B. KAEDING and G. JEPPESEN. Experiments designed to obtain evidence on selection for alpha-esterase haplotypes in laboratory populations of D.montana 60: 514 BANERJEE, I. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Activation of potential initiation sites of DNA replication by Puromycin: evidence from fibre autoradiography. 60: 55 BASDEN, E.B. The species as a block to mutations .................. 60: 57 BAUER, S.J. Sex differences in pupation site choice in Drosophila melanogaster. 60: 58 BELO, M. and D.A. BANZATTO. Association between Drosophila and yeasts. III. Attraction of males and females of D.ananassae ................ 60: 58 BERRY, T. and M. SNYDER. Treatment for bacterial contamination ........... 60: 59 BHAKTA, R.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Genetics and epigenetics of some sex-linked lethals in Drosophila melanogaster .............. 60: 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 BOCK, I.R. A matter of priority . . 60: BOEREMA, A.C. and R. BIJLSMA. Viability of Drosophila melanogaster 62 reared on 'natural ' food ............................ 60: BOS, M., C. SCHAFFELS and A. BOEREMA. Locomotor activity and fitness 614 of m-Gpdh and Adh genotypes in Drosophila melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: BOTELLA, L.M. and J.L. MENSUA. Determination of the urea and uric acid content in D.melanogaster bred in non-crowded conditions ............ 60: 66 BOTELLA, L.M., A. MOYA and J.L. MENSUA. Effect of butyrate on the development of D.melanogaster ...................... 60: 67 BOULETREAU, M., P. FOUILLET, E. WAJNBERG and G. PREVOST. A parasitic wasp changes genetic equilibrium in D.melanogaster experimental populations ..... 60: 68 CASARES, P. Interspecific inhibition between D.melanogaster and D.simulans during oviposition process .................... 60: 6 9 CHARLES-PALABOST, L. and M. LEHMANN. The effect of the temperature upon the variability of the gene pool in a Brasil Ian population of D.melanogaster. 60: 71 CHARLES-PALABOST, L. and N. LEHMANN. Genic variation in a Brasil ian population of Drosophila melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: 73 DIS 60 - ii Table of Contents June 1984 CHAUDHURI, G.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Effect of m'-Methyl-DL-Methionine on the replication of polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster ...... 60: 74 CH0I, Y., Y.M. HA and S.K. KIM. Inversions in a natural population of D.melanogaster. 60: 76 CHUNG, Y.J. Biochemical genetic study of Drosophila populations in Korea ...... 60: 77 COYNE, J.A. Report of J.A. Coyne .......................... 60: 77 CRAYMER, L. Automating saturation screens with crisscross lethals .......... 60: 78 CRAYMER, L. A procedure for constructing isogeneic stocks .............. 60: 78 CRAYMER, L. Synthesis of a ring third chromosome and its use in inserting markers into ln(3R)C .................. 60: 80 CRAYMER, L. Transferring markers to or from autosomal inversions .......... 60: 81 DE FRUTOS, R., A. LATORRE, and L. PASCUAL. Differential puffing activity in two E chromosomal arrangements of D.subobscura ................ 60: 82 Dl PASQUALE PALADINO, A. and P. CAVOLINA. Caffeine effect on tumor manifestation in the tu-pb stock of D.melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: 83 DI PASQUALE PALADINO, A. and P. CAVOLINA. Further investigations on the tu-pb melanotic tumor mutant of D.melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: 84 DUBUCQ, D., E. DEPIEREUX and A. ELENS. Phototactism and temperature ......... 60: 87 DUTTAGUPTA, A. and S. BANERJEE. In vivo synchronization by Aphidicolin and Ricin in Drosophila ...................... 60: 89 DUTTAGUPTA, A., P.C. DAS and P.K. DUTTA. Genetic fine structure of Giant (gt) locus in Drosophila melanogaster ................. 60: 90 DUTTAGUPTA, A. and A. DUTTAROY. Induction of a new Minute mutation in the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60: 91 DUTTAGUPTA, A. and A. DUTTAROY. Reassessment of breakpoints of a deficiency on 2L of Drosophila melanogaster ................ 60: 92 DUTTAGUPTA, A. and A.K. GHOSH. Effect of cadmium chloride on the polytene chromosome of Drosophila salivary gland ............. 60: 92 DUTTAGUPTA, A., A. KAR and A. DUTTAROY. A deficiency Minute mutation that acts as an enhancer of position-effect variegation ............. 60: 93 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K. , D. MUTSUDDI and M. MUTSUDDI (DAS) . Conservatism in the regulation of replication in three related species of Obscura group ....... 60: 94 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K., D. MUTSUDDI and M. MUTSUDDI(DAS). Unequal diameter of the homologous chromosomal elements in the hybrids of D.mulleri and D.arizonensis. 60: 95 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K., M. MUTSUDDI(DAS) and D. MUTSSUDI. Effect of transforming mutants on the X chromosomal replication pattern in Drosophila melanogaster. 60: 96 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K., M. MUTSUDDI(DAS) and D. MUTSUDDI. X-chromosome replication in Drosophila ............................. 60: 97 DUTTAGUPTA, A. and I. ROY. Isolation of nascent DNA from polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster .............. 60: 98 EGGLESTON, P. Correlation in the induction and response of SF and GD sterility. 60: 99 EHRMAN, L. and D. BAUMANN-MERINGOLO. Courtship followed by rareD.pseudoobscura male matings ...................... 60:101 ENGELN, H. Oviposition site preferences in different populations of Drosophila melanogaster ........................... 60:102 FALK, R. and S. BAKER. Production of centric-autosomal-Y trarislocations ....... 60:104 FARMER, J.L. Expression of ey in Drosophila pseudoobscura .............. 60:105 FOGLEMAN, J. The ability of cactophil ic Drosophila to utilize soaked soil as larval substrates ................... 60:105 GARTNER, L.P. The effects of 4000 and 8000 R of X-irradiation on Drosophila life span 60:107 GAUGER, A. and G. SCHUBIGER. A method to screen for Df(3R)P9 homozygotes ...... 60:108 GERASIMOVA, T.I. and Yu.V. ILYIN. The role of the mobile element mdg4 in the formation of unstable cut mutations in Drosophila melanogaster . . . . . . 60:109 GERASIMOVA, T.I. and Yu.V. ILYIN. TFanspositions of various mobile elements and their relation of unstable mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster ...... 60:111 GHOSH, M. Nucleolar chromatin thread in different species of Drosophila ....... 60:112 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Evolutionarily related species and their NCT structures 60:113 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Nucleolar chromatin thread (NCT) I in hybrids of Drosophila ............................ 60:116 GOLDSTEIN, E., T. BERRY and E. NOVITSKI. Evidence for the presence of telomeric material in the junction of 2L and 211 in entire compound two chromosomes. . 60:117 GONZALEZ, F. Non-effect of light conditions as a selective force for an eye colour mutant of Drosophila melanogaster ....... 60:118 June 1984 Table of Contents DIS 60 - iii GONZALEZ, F. and J. FERRE. Non-dependence of the eye pigmentation of Drosophila melanogaster on light conditions ................. 60: 119 GONZALEZ, A. and J.L. MENSUA. Inversions in two natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster from cellar and vineyard ......... 60:119 GREENBERG, R.M. and P.N. ADLER. Protein synthesis in 60: homeoticafly transformed imaginal discs ..................... 121 HARA, T. and
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