artificial food media for flower-breeding Drosophila

[Hampton Carson]

I replied to Rita de Cassia dos Santos but had forgotten about D. 
elegans. Like Davis, I was able to rear it on regular medium.We took the  
specimens directly from the Ipomea flower hosts in New Guinea.  This 
species, a member of the melanogaster group, would be a good flower species
 to work on in the lab (see notes on it in Okada and Carson: Kontyu, Tokyo 50:
 524-525 1982)

Hamp Carson
Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology
School of Medicine
1960 East-Wwest Road
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822



On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, A.J. Davis

wrote:

> In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950830122752.37693B-100000 at spider.usp.br> santos at usp.br (Rita de Cassia dos Santos ib - bio 7573) writes:
> >From: santos at usp.br (Rita de Cassia dos Santos ib - bio 7573)
> >Subject: artificial food media for flower-breeding Drosophila
> >Date: 30 Aug 1995 08:39:20 -0700
> 
> >        I like very much to receive information about how to breed 
> >flower-breeding Drosophila of the flavopilosa group...
> 
> our only experience is with Drosophila elegans from China but can't be much 
> help to you since this species develops very well on ordinary cereal based 
> medium.
> 
> 
> Andrew Davis, Drosophila, Leeds UK
> 
>