Fruit and vegetable food media suitable for maintaining D . melanogaster flies
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Large populations of larvae, required for many behavioral assays are difficult to be obtained by individual brush picking from the growth medium. Polyethylene glycol was found as a suitable replacement of sucrose, for density separation. Polyethylene glycol is a non-physiological agent and was found to have no adverse effect on olfactory response of the larvae.
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