From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Oct 24 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!noc.near.net!news.cshl.org!pandora.cshl.org!user From: jonesc@cshl.org (Chris Jones) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: painting drosophila Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:56:39 -0500 Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <9509188140.AA814037274@gandalf.bio.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pandora.cshl.org X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.2 In article <9509188140.AA814037274@gandalf.bio.uci.edu>, LDMUELLE@UCI.EDU ("Laurence D. MUELLER") wrote: > I am not an artist but rather am interested to hear if anyone has > had success permanantly marking individual flies with paint or > some other substance. My goal is ultimately study age-structure > in laboratory populations. My initial tests with water soluble > acrylic paint have failed because the paints wear off on many > flies within a week. I have no references to hand, I'm afraid, but I've read about a number of capture-recapture studies in the field which use fluorescent dust (?) or paint. A search in FlyBase should give you what you need to know. If you can't find anything, let me know and I'll try and dig up some references. -- Chris Jones (jonesc@cshl.org) .