TRIPLOID INTERSEXES IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Intersex Modifying Genes in Wild Strains of Drosophila Melanogaster.

HE sex determining mechanism in diploid Drosophila melanogaster is T completely stable. No intersexual individuals are produced from hybridizing strains of D. melanogaster collected from widely separated geographical localities. In Lymantria, on the contrary, GOLDSCHMIDT (1934) has shown that the potencies of the X chromosome sex gene differs in races from Europe and Japan. The degree of sexual...

A map of the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, based on crossing over in triploid females.

Under ordinary conditions there is so little crossing over in the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster that the usual method of constructing a map is not practicable. Deduction from the behavior of translocations has been utilized, but as will be shown here, has led to an incorrect result. Bridges and Brehme (1944) give the seriation bt (bent), sv (shaven), ci (cubitus interruptus), gvl...

Toxicological Evaluation of a New Lepidopteran Insecticide, Flubendiamide, in Non-Target Drosophila melanogaster Meigen (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Background: Flubendiamide, comparatively a new pesticide designed to eradicate lepidopteran insect pests is known to have low risk to birds, mammals, fish, algae, honey bees, non-target arthropods, earthworms, soil macro- and micro-organisms, non-target plants as well as sewage treatment organisms; however, the risk assessment for aquatic invertebrates from metabolite could not be finalized wit...

Aconitase and Developmental EndPointsasEarly IndicatorsofCellularToxicity Induced by Xenobiotics in Drosophila Melanogaster

Background: In this study, the toxicity of the different xenobiotics was tested on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster model system.  Methods: Fly larvae were raised on food supplemented with xenobioticsat different concentrations (sodium nitroprusside (0.1-1.5 mM), S-nitrosoglutathione (0.5-4 mM), and potassium ferrocyanide (1 mM)). Emergence of flies, food intake by larvae, and pupation h...

Triploid Intersexuality in Drosophila Americana Spencer.