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Springer Advances In Genetics Development And Evolution Of Drosophila 1982 Edition by Seppo Lakovaara
In 1906 Castle Carpenter Clarke Mast and Barrows published a paper entitled "The effects of inbreeding cross-breeding and selection upon the fertility and variability of Drosophila." This article 55 pages long and published in the Proceedings of the Amer- ican Academy described experiments performed with Drosophila ampe- lophila Lov "a small dipterous insect known under various popular names such as the little fruit fly pomace fly vinegar fly wine fly and pickled fruit fly." This study which was begun in 1901 and published in 1906 was the first published experimental study using Drosophila subsequently known as Drosophila melanogaster Meigen. Of course Drosophila was known before the experiments of Cas- tles's group. The small flies swarming around grapes and wine pots have surely been known as long as wine has been produced. The honor of what was the first known misclassification of the fruit flies goes to Fabricius who named them Musca funebris in 1787. It was the Swedish dipterist C.F. Fallen who in 1823 changed the name of ~ funebris to Drosophila funebris which was heralding the beginning of the genus Drosophila.Present-day Drosophila research was started just 80 years ago and first published only 75 years ago. Even though the history of Drosophila research is short the impact and volume of study on Drosophila has been tremendous during the last decades. Table of contents : Polytene Chromosomes.- A New Spreading Technique for Polytene Chromosomes and Its Efficiency for Autoradiography Including in situ Hybridization.- Structural Analysis of Polytene Chromosome Bands and Interbands.- Electron Microscopic Map for the Salivary Gland Chromosome X of Drosophila melanogaster. Divisions 1-5.- Patterns of Puffing Activity in the Polytene Chromosomes of Drosophila subobscura.- Cytogenetic Mechanisms.- Nonhomologous Chromosome Pairing in Oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster According to Distribution and Spontaneous Interchange Data.- Recombination Frequency in Temperature Shocked Reciprocal Hybrids of Inbred Lines of Drosophila melanogaster.- Gene Action.- Allelic Negative Complementation in the Notch Locus of Drosophila melanogaster at the Morphological Level.- Unstable Magnification at the Bobbed Locus of Drosophila hydei.- Mutagenesis and Mutations.- DNA Repair Dependent Mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster.- Mutagenic Effect of Cannabis.- On the Problem of Spontaneous Mutation in Drosophila melanogaster.- Development.- Drosophila Mutants that Develop Benign Lethal-Benign and Malignant Neoplasms.- The Bithorax Syntagma.- On the Mechanisms of the Effects of Larval Density and Temperature on Drosophila Development.- Ecdysteroid Titers During the Stages of Drosophila Metamorphosis.- Injection of Enzyme-Coated Microspheres into Drosophila Eggs.- Ageing.- Contribution to the Evolutionary Theory of Ageing. IV. Age-Associated Changes and Developmental Programmes in Drosophila.- Evolutionary Divergence of Growth Components and Life Span in Subpopulations of Drosophila melanogaster Raised in Different Environments.- Enzyme Polymorphism.- Isozyme Polymorphism in Drosophila. IV. Interspecific Variation and Population Dynamics.- Determination of Some Biochemical Features of Alcohol Dehydrogenase from Drosophila Melanogaster D. Simulans D. Virilis D. Funebris D. Immigrans and D. Lebanonensis. Comparison of Their Properties and Estimation of the Homology of the Adh Enzyme of Different Species.- Comparison of Some Biochemical Features of the Enzyme Alcohol Dehydrogenase in Sixteen Species of Drosophila.- Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity and Ethanol Tolerance Along the Adh Cline in Australia.- The Alcohol Dehydrogenase Polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster: Patterns of Variation for Three Alleles.- Genetics and Biochemistry of Esterase-6 in Drosophila melanogaster.- Extent of Genetic Variability of Malate Dehydrogenase-2 (MDH-2) in Drosophila subobscura.- Biochemical and Physiological Basis for Fitness Differences at Allozyme Loci in Drosophila melanogaster.- Genetic Interactions.- Heterozygosity and Variation for a Quantitative Trait.- Associative Overdominance on the Pgm and Idh Locus Artificially Produced in Experimental Populations of Drosophila melanogaster.- Gametic Equilibrium in Central and Marginal Populations of Drosophila subobscura.- Selection.- Variability in Experimental Populations of Drosophila melanogaster with a Record of Artificial Selection.- Stabilizing Selection for Number and Pattern of Extra Bristles in Drosophila melanogaster.- Behavior.- Spontaneous Locomotor Activity and Dopamine Levels in tyr-1 Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster.- Selection for Negative Phototactic Behavior in Y Mazes.- Different Genetic Realization of Photonegative Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Detected by a Chromosome Substitution Analysis.- Reproductive Advantages in Sequential Drosophila pseudoobscura Matings.- Sexual Isolation and Speciation.- Mating Behavior and Male Courtship Sounds in the Drosophila virilis Group.- A Test of the Genetic Revolution Hypothesis of Speciation.- List of Contributors.- Author Index.