Drosophila Information Service
Volume 42 (January 1967)

Research Notes

Angus, D. Drosophila collection from British Solomon Islands Protectorate and the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.

Angus, D. Cytological evolution in the quadrilineata species group.

Arking, Robert and Ro Hillman. Analysis of the mode of action of the eyeless-Dominant allele.

Bächli, G. and H. Burla. Breeding Drosophila from Mushrooms.

Bahn, E. Crossing over within "alleles" determining multiple amylases in D. melanogaster.

Barigozzi, C. and Sari Gorla M. Mitotic recombination inDrosophila melanogaster.

Beatty, R.A. and N.S. Sidhu. Spermatozoan nucleus length in minutes of D. melanogaster.

Berendes, H.D. Amino acid incorporation into giant chromosomes of D. hydei.

Bösiger,E., A. Pentzos, and A. Kanellis. Frequency of visible mutants in natural populations of D. subobscura.

Bowman, J.T. Another "super-reversion" at the white locus of D. melanogaster.

Brosseau, G.E., Jr. The effect of low temperature on the mitotic chromosomes ofDrosophila.

Burla, H. Induction of mutations in homokaryotypicD. subobscura.

Carlson, J.H. A mutant stock exhibiting complete absence of the second longitudinal vein (L2) in D. melanogaster.

Clancy, C.W. Identification of ptm (pteridine modifier) as a wild type isoallele of the bw locus.
    see Volume 43: Clancy, C.W. CORRECTION of note in DIS 42: 57.

Cole, T.A. Alcohol dehydrogenases in the pupae of D. melanogaster (Oregon R-C).

Danieli, G.A. and E. Rodinò. Biochemical estimate of DNA content in D. hydeisalivary glands.

Datta, Rajat Kumar. Influence of y+ and sc alleles in suppression of yellow colorin the sexcomb of Drosophila melanogaster.

David, J. and M.F. Clavel. Variations of the rate of egg chambers productionin the ovarioles of Drosophila melanogaster.

DeMarinis, F. A comparison of the effects of 5- bromouracil and uracil on the facet number of the Bar eye.

Di Pasquale, A. and B.L. Zambruni. Histological study of bsp phenotype.

Duffy, J.P. and J. Stiles, Jr. Esterase 6S Isozyme in Alaful-l and Gluful-l Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster.

Forward, K.J. and B.P. Kaufmann. The bipartite nature of the salivary-gland X chromosome.

Frye, S.H. Correction in the report of Sara H. Frye (DIS 41:205).

Gethmann, R.C. A reduced viability effect of a ring duplication, Dp(1;f)65Xc2.

Giesel, B.J. Ring loss in Xc2In(1)wVC, wVc f at two temperatures.

Hoenigsberg, H.F. and L.A. Granobles. Comparative frequencies of detrimentalrecessives in European and Neotropical populations of D. melanogaster.

Hijikuro, S. Studies on the content of beta-alanine and the body color ofDrosophila.

Hughes, A.M. and P.E. Hildreth. The production of a new mutant in Drosophilamelanogaster by low doses of tritium irradiation.

Hochman, B. EMS and ICR-l00 induced chromosome 4 lethals in D. melanogaster.

Hunter, A.S. Preference in mating time of Drosophila mesophragmatica.

Imaizumi, T. A new embryonic lethal strain originated from a tip mutation of theX-chromosome.

Ives, P.T. Relocation of the or locus closer to pd.

Jones, L.P. Instability of an ebony polymorphism of D. melanogaster.

Jost, P. Observation of an unexpectedly high frequency of Barrevertants.

Jungen, H. Evidence of spontaneous inversion in D. subobscura.

Jungen, H. Abnormal sex ratio, linked with inverted gene sequence, in populationsof D. subobscura from Tunisia.

Kaneko, A., E. Momma and T. Shima. Frequencies of abundance of robusta species group in Hakkaido.

Keller, E.C. Jr., H.E. Keller and E. Liner. Heterosis in Xanthine Dehydrogenase activity levels.

Koref-Santibañez, S. and M. Lamborot. The effect .of temperature on mating activityin D. gauchaandD. pavani.

Kuhn, D.T. and G.D. Hanks. Suppression of recovery disrupter effect due to a4th chromosome carrying Minute.

Kumar, Sushil, R.P. Sharma and M.S. Swaminathan. Chromosomal rearrangements resulting from action of a monofunctional alkylating derivative ofacridine in salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster.

Lefevre, G. Lethal and visible mutation frequencies.

Lefevre, G. and L. Moore. Sperm transfer and storage.

Lifschytz, E. Induced X-chromsome lethals covered by Ycw+.

MacIntyre, Ross J.J.and M.R. Dean. In vitro dissociation and reconstitution ofacid phosphatase-l from D. melanogaster.

Malich, C.W. and R.M. Binnard. Variations in the transmission of broken chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster.

Mather, W.B. Inter-yearly fluctuation of D. rubida inversion polymorphism.

Mensua, J.L. Some factors affecting pupation height of Drosophila.

Miller, D.D., N.J. Westphal, and R.A. Voelker. A preliminary note on genesequence variation reinvestigation in the C chromosome of Drosophila athabasca.

Mittler, Sidney and J.R. Gerdy. The effect of various maternal chromosomes on thespontaneous occurence of XO males.

Momma, E. and A. Kaneko.Drosophilidae from three localities in Hokkaido and inAomori prefecture, based on collections in summer of 1965.

Moriwaki, D.and Y.N. Tobari. Male crossing over in Drosophila ananassae.

Muhammed, A. and J. Trosko. A search for photoreactivating enzymes in Drosophilamelanogaster extracts.

Nilsson, L.R. On the ontogeny of alkaline phosphatases in D. melanogaster.

Nöthel, H. An estimation of the number of active oogonia per ovariole in D. melanogaster females.

Novitski, E., M.E. Myszewski and H. Goldin. Dicentric chromosomes in Drosophila.

Ogaki, M., E. Nakashima-Tanaka and S. Murakami. Ether resistance in D. melanogaster.

Ohba, S. and F. Sasaki. Electrophoretic variants of esterase in Drosophila virilis.

Ohba, S. and F. Sasaki. Polymorphisms of electrophoretic variants of esterase in annatural population of Drosophila virilis.

Okada, T. Character continuities in the caenogenetic organs of Drosophilidae.

Palomino, H. and E. del Solar. Density, fertility and gregarian tendency in Drosophila melanogaster.

Parkash, Om. On the so-called conditioned (incomplete) and absolute lethals in Drosophila melanogaster.

Pasztor, L.M. A tandem metacentric which generates unstable rings.

Paterson, H.E. and L. Tsakas. The identification of Drosophila s equyi(smart).

Pipkin, S.B. Polymorphism of octonol dehydrogenase in neotropicalDrosophila species.

Poulson, D.F. Developmental effects of mutants at the Notch locus inD. melanogaster.

Poulson, D.F., T. Hyde, and K. Oishi. Interactions between SR spirochetes fromdifferent species of Drosophila.

Rezzonico Raimondi, G. and A. Gottardi. Growth Behaviour of embryonic cells ofDrosophila melanogaster cultured in vitro.

Rasmuson, B. Modulation of the puff in the tip of the X-chromosome in D. melanogaster.

Shamay, E. Induced spermatogonial crossing over in the centromere regions of chromosomes II and III of D. melanogaster.

Shima, T., A. Kaneko and E. Momma. On some aspects on the copulation, inseminationreaction and sperm storage in two species of quinaria group.

Tedeschi, M. Valéria and Luiz Edmundo de Magalhães. Sex-limited effect of detrimental autosomic chromosome in D. melanogaster.

Tsacas, L. Drosophilids of the Ivory Coast.

Uda, F. and T. Taira. Cyclic nucleotides and adenylosuccinic acid found in D. melanogaster.

Van Delden, W. Adaptation in D. melanogaster populations started from an inbred line.

Wagoner, D. E. The linkage group - karyotype relationship in the house fly(Musca domestics L.).

Waldner-Stiefelmeier, R. and P.S. Chen. Proteolytic digestive enzymes in D. melanogaster.

Wasserman, M. Collections of Drosophila from Central Mexico.

Whitten, M.J. Quantitative measurement of the effect of temperature on thepenetrance of the eye mutant, witty, in D. melanogaster.

Whittinghill, M. Somatic spot confirmation of the chromosome arm loci of inri and p.

Yoon, Jong Sik and R.H. Richardson. A study of the relationship between ovariole number and egg production in Drosophila pseudoobscura.

Technical Notes

Blaylock, B.G. A population cage for counting adultDrosophila populations.

Carlson, J.H. A source of paper for Drosophila cultures.

Danieli, G.A. and F. Rodinó. A homogeneous medium for studies of labeled precursors incorporation in growing larvae.

Erk, F.C. An expressivity scale for melanotic tumors.

Forbes, C. Plastic planchets as Radiation Exposure Holders for Drosophila.

Hess, O. New "one way" Drosophila culture containers made of plastics.

Hoch, F. Cover Glass removal.

Hooper, G.B. An automatic trapping apparatus for Drosophila.

Johnson, W.W. A simple Drosophila activity maze.

Jost, P. and W. Sistrom. Effects of humidity on increasing the yield from vial pairmatings.

MacMahon, J.A. and D. Taylor. Another method for removing Drosophila from traps.

Petit, C. An isotherm chamber for behavioral observations.

Seecof, R.L. An apparatus for drawing micropipettes.

Shelton, E.E. A density method of collecting and cleaning eggs from D. melanogaster.

Stalker, H.E. Techniques for improving salivary chromosome preparations.

Teaching Note

Lifschytz, E. and R. Falk. Complementation map in Drosophila.