From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Mon Oct 16 23:00:00 1995
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From: bernhardt@bscr.uga.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila
Subject: Re: Virgin collection
Date: 17 Oct 1995 13:26:31 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens, Ga
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In article <45nito$t9e@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, bernhardt@bscr.uga.edu writes:
>In article <45f4h4$8ds@saba.info.ucla.edu>, lscclab@biovx1.biology.ucla.edu (LSCCLAB) writes:
>>Is there anything that can be done to increase the amount of virgins 
>>collected from the bottle
>	Collect often enough to prevent mating.  Once every 12 hours
>should do it.
	Note that this is a rule of thumb only.  Temperature and species
may require different counting intervals.  One way to be sure you're
getting virgins is to keep the culture bottles that you hold the alleged
virgins around for a few days after you use them.  If you see any larvae
running around, the flies weren't all virgins, or you put a male in there.
Ooops!
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Matt Bernhardt                     
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bernhardt@bscr.uga.edu  

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