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Hedrick, Editor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - USA. June 1987 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 66 DIS 66 - Table of Contents ANNOUNCEMENTS and 28th ANNUAL DROSOPHILA CONFERENCE REPORT ......................... 66: v RESEARCH NOTES ADELL, J.C. and L.M. BOTELLA. Selection for rate of pupation in crowded cultures of Drosophila melanogaster . ......................................................................................... 66: 1 AIMANOVA, K.G., L.M. PERELIGINA and N.N. KOLESNIKOV. A biochemical analysis of the salivary gland secretory glycoproteins of Drosophila virilis . .................................. 66: 1 AIMANOVA, K.G., L.M. PERELIGINA and N.N. KOLESNIKOV. A genetic analysis of the tissue-specific salivary gland secretion proteins of D.virilis .................................. 66: 3 ALCORTA, E., A. DOMINGUEZ and J. ALBORNOZ. Egg retention in Drosophilamelanogaster females . ................................................................................ 66: 5 ALEXANDROV, I.D. Enigmas of radiation mutagenesis in c(3)G mutant of Drosophila melanogaster . ......................................................................................... 66: 7 ALEXANDROV, I.D. Modification of radiation-induced rates of intra- and intergenic changes at the vestigial locus of Drosophila melanogaster by genotype, caffeeine, actinomycin-D, sodiumfluoride and radiation quality . ........................................................................... 66: 10 ALEXANDROV, I.D. and M.V. ALEXANDROVA. A new nw allele and interallelic complementation at the vg locus of Drosophila melanogaster . ........................................ 66: 11 APAR 151, M.L. and C. NAJERA. Location of eye colour mutants from natural populations of D.melanogaster . ..................................................................................................... 66: 12 APARISI, M.L. and C. NAJERA. Quantitative estimations of the red and brown pigments of eye colour mutant from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster . ..................... 66: 13 ARBONA, M. and R. DE FRUTOS. Induction of new puffs during recovery from anoxia in Drosophila subobscura . .............................................................................................. 66: 15 ARMSTRONG, E., L. BASS and K. STAKER. Transovarial transmission and longevity of Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila simulans infected with Nosema kingi . ........................ 66: 15 ........................................................ BAND , H.T. Attraction of chymomyzids to a tree wound . 66: 15 BAND, H.T. Pgm in Virginia Chymomyza amoena populations . ................................................ 66: 16 BANERJEE, Snigdha, S.K. BANERJEE and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Separation of two populations of nascent replicons in polytene chromosomes in Drosophila hydei byagarose gel electrophoresis . ..................................................................................... 66: 17 BARICHEVA, E.M., V.F. SEMESHIN, I.F. ZHIMULEV and E.S. BELYAEVA. Electron microscopical mapping of some puffs of Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes . ............................................................................................................. 66: 18 BELL, W.J. and K. NAGLE. Pattern of inheritance of adult rover/sitter traits . ......................... 66: 22 BELO, M. and D.A. BANZATTO. Association between Drosphila and yeasts. .................................................... V . Breeding sites preferences in D.ananassae strains . 66: 23 BELO, M. and E.B. MALHEIROS. Association between Drosophila and yeasts. VII. Crosses with D.ananassae strains selected for development . .................................... 66: 25 BOEDIGHEIMER, M. and M. SIMMONS. Studies on the ability of an M' strain to suppress P element-induced hybrid dysgenesis . ........................................................................... 66: 26 BOLSHAKOV, V.N. and I.F. ZHIMULEV. Distribution of rearrangement's breakpoints within the 11A6-9 intercalary heterochromatin band of Drosophila melanogaster X-chromosome . ...... 66: 28 BOVE, C. Hybridization between S.cerevisiae CDC genes and D.melanogaster DNAreveals no homology . ........................................................................................... 66: 31 BOVE, C. pBR 322 homologous sequences found in a library of D.melanogaster genomic DNA. .... 66: 32 BRAUDE-ZOLOTARJOVA, T.Ya. and N.G. SCHUPPE. Transient expression of hsp-CAT1 and copia-CAT1 hybrid genes in D.melanogaster and D.virilis cultured cells . ................... 66: 33 CAMPBELL, J. and A.F. SHERALD. Sensitivity of the suppressor of black mutation of D.melanogaster to dietary beta-a lanine ......................................................................... 66: 34 CHATTERJEE, S. and B.N. SINGH. Pattern of mating between light and dark forms of Drosophila ananassae . ............................................................................................. 66: 35 CINTRON, C.N. and Y. PEREZ-CHIESA. Induction of dominant lethals in Drosophila melanogaster treated with fagaronine . ......................................................................... 66: 36 DANIELS, S.B., I.A. BOUSSY, A. TUKEY, M. CARRILLO and M.G. KIDWELL. Variability among "true M" lines in P-M gonadal dysgenesis potential . ............................ 66: 37 DAVID, J.R., P. CAPY, S. MCEVEY, K. DALY and F. BORAI. Latitudinal dines of Adh gene frequencies in Drosophila melanogaster: A Mediterranean instability . .............. 66: 40 ii - DIS 66 Table of Contents June 1987 DHINGRA, G. and N.K. VIJAYAKUMAR. Genotoxic studies in Drosophila treated with dimethoate insecticide . ............................................................................ 66: 42 DHINGRA, G. and N.K. VIJAYAKUMAR. Mutagenic evaluation of lindane in D.melanogaster. .... 66: 43 DHINGRA, G. and N.K. VIJAYAKUMAR. Toxic and lethal effects of lindane onthe life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster . ................................................................ 66: 44 Dl PASQUALE PALADINO, A., P. CAVOLINA, C. ROMANO and R. RIBAUDO. Further observations on the tu-pb genome of Drosophila melanogaster . ........................... 66: 47 DOANE, W.W. Location of the map control gene relative to Amy and nw in D.melanogaster . ...... 66: 48 DOANE, W.W. and F.E. DUMAPIAS. Deletion limits of the adp, map and nw loci in D.melanogaster. 66: 49 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K. and S. DE. Studies on the heat shock loci in some Drosophila species . ....... 66: 50 FOGLEMAN, J. and J. WILLIAMS. Oviposition site preference of cactophilic Drosophila inthe eremophila complex . .......................................................................................... 66: 51 FROELICH, A. and R. NOETHIGER. Screening for suppressible alleles of sex-determining genes in Drosophila melanogaster . ............................................................................... 66: 53 FUYAMA, Y. Haploid embryos of Drosophila melanogaster are female . .................................... 66: 53 GANTER, P.F. and W.T. STARMER. A note on the insects collected on a birch flux . .................. 66: 54 GARCIA, L., P. CASARES and M.C. CARRACEDO. Success in selecting for pupation height in D.melanogaster . ........................................................................................... 66: 55 GEBHARDT, M.D., S.C. STEARNS, H. BACHMANN and T. DIGGELMANN. Plasticity of age and size at hatching in D.mercatorum . ................................................. 66: 56 GEORGIEV, P.G., S.E. KOROCHKINA, V.A. MOGILA and T.A. GERASIMOVA. Mitromycin C induces transpositions of mobile elements in Drosophila melanogaster genome . ................ 66: 61 GHOSH, A.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Effect of trisomy for 3L on the expression of 87A and 87C heat shock loci in heat shocked trisomy for 3L nuclei . ............................. 66: 62 GHOSH, A.K. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Lack of dosage compensation phenomenon inhaplo-4 chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster . ...................................................... 66: 63 GHOSH, M. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Effect of salivary gland extract on the X chromosome of salivary gland nuclei of Drosophila melanogaster under in vitro culture condition . ........ 66: 63 GHOSH, S. and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Transcriptional and enzymatic analysis of segmental aneuploids of Drosophila melanogaster involving the proximal region of X-chromosome. .... 66: 64 GILBERT, D.G. Estimating single gene effects on quantitative traits. 3. Test of the single population method with D.melanogaster