DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 67 June 1988 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. Department of Biology Mueller Hall The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE Number 67 June 1988 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 Philip W. Hedrick, Editor, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 - U.S.A. June 1988 DROSOPHILA INFORMATION SERVICE 67 DIS 67 - Table of Contents ANNOUNCEMENTS ............................................................................................................... 67: iv SPECIAL NOTE Letter from Herman T. Spieth: Native larval substrate of pseudoobscura . ................................. 67: 1 RESEARCH NOTES ACHARY, P.M. and A.K. DUTTAGUPTA. Effect of novobiocin on the DNA replication of polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster in vivo . ......................................... 67: 3 APAR IS!, M.L. and C. NAJERA. Mapping of new eye-color mutants from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster . ........................................................................ 67: 4 APAR IS!, M.L. and C. NAJERA. Pigment patterns of eye-colour mutants from natural populationsof Drosophila melanogaster . ........................................................................ 67: 5 ARNASON, E. ESTERASE-5 in Drosophila pseudoobscura is transferred from males to females during copulation . ............................................................................................ 67: 7 ASADA, N. Genetic variation in reaction mass formation in Drosophila . ................................... 67: 8 BALANYA, J., C. SEGARRA and A. PREVOSTI. A U chromosome duplication found i n colonizing populations of D.subobscura . ..................................................................... 67: 9 BANERJEE, S.K., S. BANERJEE and A.S. MUKHERJEE. Silver nitrate stained non-ribosomal cistrons in Drosophila hydei polytene chromosome . ................................... 67: 10 BARRIO, E. and A. LATORRE. Conservation of the alternate Guanine-Cytosine sequences in the mitochondrial DNA of species belonging to the Drosophila obscura group . .............. 67: 11 BIJLSMA, R. A preliminary note on the genetic structure of a D.melanogaster population from Death Valley (California) . ..................................................................................... 67: 12 BIRCHLER, J.A. An inverse regulator of the Notch locus . ....................................................... 67: 13 CHAMBERS, S.K., S.L. DAVIES, M. HODGETTS, R.H. MOORE and I.J. POMER. Drosophila species from the Wellington and Wairarapa districts of New Zealand . .............. 67: 13 CHRISTENSEN, A.C. and J.C. LUCCHES!. Failure of the Triplo-lethal locus of Drosophila melanogaster to interact with sex-determining genes . .................................... 67: 15 COSTA, R., M. ZORDAN, A. TAVELLA and A.G. LEVIS. Chronic exposure to Nipagin (-hydroxy-benzoic acid methyl ester), a common additive of culture media, induces germ-cell aneuploidy in Drosophila melanogaster . .............................................. 67: 16 CROSSLEY, S.A. Lek behaviour and its evolution in Drosophila mycetophaga (Hirtodrosophila). 67: 17 DEMAKOVA, O.V. and E.S. BELYAEVA. Effect of mating direction on the position effect variegation of T(1;2)dor'ar7 in D.melanogaster . .................................................. 67: 19 DEMAKOVA, O.V., E.S. BELYAEVA and I.F. ZHIMULEV. Genetical characteristics of loci in the 213-region of D.rnelanogaster X-chromosome under position effect variegation in T(1;2)dora'7. ........................................................................................ 67: 21 DHINGRA, C., J.B. CHOWDHURY and P.K. SAREEN. Effect of Sevidol on fertility and sex-linked recessive lethal frequency in Drosophila melanogaster . ................................... 67: 28 DHINGRA, G., J.B. CHOWDHURY and P.K. SAREEN. Genotoxic effects of a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide on Drosophila . ............................................................................ 67: 29 DHINGRA, G., J.B. CHOWDHURY and P.K. SAREEN. Preliminary studies in Drosophila treated with deltamethrin . ........................................................................................... 67: 30 DI PASQUALE PALADINO, A., P. CAVOLINA, G. ROMANO and R. RIBAUDO. The tu-pb melanotic tumor strain of Drosophila melanogaster: cytological analysis of salivary chromosomes . ................................................................................................. 67: 32 DUTTAGUPTA, A.K. and N. MANNA. Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila ananassae . .................... 67: 34 EBERL, D.F., A.J. HILLIKER and R.A. VOELKER. Determination of lethal phases of mutationsin the su(s) microregion . ............................................................................... 67: 36 FURMAN, D.P. and S.A. SABANOV. Influence of P element insertion on conjugated expression of scute, singed, forked mutations in Drosophila melanogaster . ....................... 67: 37 GALIANA, A. and A. MOYA. Isolation among ancestral and derived strains of Drosophila pseudoobscura . ....................................................................................... 67: 38 GARCIA-VASQUEZ, E. and F. SANCHEZ-REFUSTA. Chromosomal polymorphism and macrochetae in a natural population of D.melanogaster studied by isofemale lines . ........... 67: 39 ii - DIS 67 Table cf Contents June 1988 GARTNER, L.P. Surface density of the rough endoplasmic reticulum in the aged Drosophilamidgut. A morphometric analysis . ............................................................... 67: 41 GERASIMOVA, T.l., V.A. MITIN, N.A. TCHURIKOV and E.Z. KOCHIEVA. Site-directed mutagenesis of the cut locus due to mdg4 injections . ..................................................... 67: 42 GIMELFARB, A. and J. WILLIS. Etherizing parents reduces the weight of their offspring . .......... 67: 43 GUPTA, K.K. and J.P. GUPTA. The family Drosophilidae in Nagaland, India . ............................ 67: 44 IMASHEVA, A.G., L.A. ZHIVATOVSKY and O.E. LAZEBNY. The effect of directional and stabilizing selection on size of experimental Drosophila populations . ............................... 67: 45 ISLAM, M.S., M.A.R. KHAN, P.C. BARMAN and S.I. ALl. Effect of copper and ferrous sulphates on the durations of developmental stages of Drosophila melanogaster . ............... 67: 46 ISLAM, M.S. and A.B. SIDDIQUE. The integrated effects of temperature-shock on pupae and selection for sex-ratio in Drosophila melanogaster . .................................................. 67: 46 JELISAVCK, B. and M. ANDJELKOVK. Adaptive significance of amylase polymorphism in Drosophila. V. Starch detection in the midguts of Drosophila adults and dynamics of its passage through the alimentary tract . .................................................... 67: 48 JOHNSON, S.A. and M.J. MILNER. The ultrastructure of the peripodical membrane of Drosophila leg and wing imaginal discs during evagination . .......................................... 67: 49 KALISCH, W.-E. and S.R. RAMESH. Individual and empty pupal cases used for genotypic characterization of larval glue protein fractions in Drosophila n.nasuta . .......................... 67: 51 KAMPING, A. and W. VAN DELDEN. Hybridization between D.melanogaster and D.simulans . ..... 67: 53 LEICHT, B.G. and J.J. BONNER. X-ray-induced generation of duplications and deletions along the third chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster . ............................................... 67: 54 LOKEN, K. and M.J. SIMMONS. Further evidence for the somatic effects of P element activityin D.melanogaster . .......................................................................................... 67: 56 MITTLER, S. and S. GARCIA. The failure of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus to induce somatic mutation and recombination in wing hair test . ................................................... 67: 59 MOHANTY, S., S. CHATTER JEE and B.N. SINGH. Variation in the expression of plexus mutation in Drosophila ananassae . ................................................................................ 67: 59 MUNOZ, E.R. Sex-linked recessive lethals induced in Drosophila melanogaster mature sperm by DES vapors . ....................................................................................... 67: 60 MUTSUDDRDAS), M., D. MUTSUDDI and A.K. DUTTAGUPTA. X-autosomal dosage compensationin Drosophila . ......................................................................................... 67: 61 ORDONO, E., F.J. SILVA and J. FERRE. Low dihydropterin oxidase activity in the "little isoxanthopterin" mutant of D.melanogaster . ........................................................ 67: 63 OUDMAN, L., A. KAMPING and W. VAN DELDEN. Body size and survival at hightemperature in Drosophila melanogaster . ................................................................ 67: 63 PEGUEROLES, G., C. SEGARRA and A. PREVOSTI. A new inversion of the Echromosome in D.subobscura . .................................................................................... 67: 64 REAL, M.D. and