Balancers

[David De Lorenzo]

Hi,

I am looking for good balancers to create isogenic lines in 
Drosophila melanogaster. I have been looking at the bibliography, but 
the problem is, there are hundreds of balancers, each one of them 
good enough for studying a specific region in a chromosome, because 
they reduce effectively the recombination in that region. But I would 
like to know which ones are the most effective general suppressors of 
recombination.

It looks like the most efficient balancers are FM3 for the X 
chromosome, SM5 and CyO for the 2nd chromosome, and TM6B for the 3rd 
chromosome.

My questions are: are these really the best balancers? if yes, what 
would be the best markers that should go with each of this balancers? 
Any suggestions?

Please email the answers to delorenzo at zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de

Many thanks,

David
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