From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!jeeves.usfca.edu!news From: Chihara Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: HELP, Please. Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:44:19 -0700 Organization: University of San Francisco Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31F3E823.42BD@usfca.edu> References: <00003366+000002be@msn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.202.160.110 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) To: Tariq Sheikh Tariq Sheikh wrote: > > Sorry but I was wondering if there was anybody out there who could > help me with a Biology practical regarding Drosophila melanogaster. > > The practical is a part of an A-Level (examinations before we go to > University here in the UK) biology course and the title of the > experiment is somewhere along the lines of:- > > "The use of Drosophila Melanogaster in the study of genetics." > > I intend to use Sordaria fimicola strain C7h with white and black ascospores. > > I can find bits and bobs of information regarding this fruit fly, but > nothing in relation to using it for genetic purposes. Has anybody > conducted a similar experiment, where ther any problems or any thing > important that I should know, such as any parasites that could harm > the fly? Try Flybase on the www. http://www.embl-ebi.ac.uk/flybase > .