From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Feb 15 22:00:00 1994 Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Path: biosci!daresbury!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!iitmax!garfinkl From: garfinkl@iitmax.iit.edu (Mark D. Garfinkel) Subject: Re: Drosophila cell culture Message-ID: <1994Feb15.153039.11135@iitmax.iit.edu> Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago References: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 15:30:39 GMT Lines: 24 In article genecutl@mendel.berkeley.edu (gc) writes: >Does anybody know the origins of the Schneider cell and Kc cell lines? >I would really appreciate any references on the original cloning of these >cell lines (my lit searches have turned up nothing). >Thanks. Chapter 7 of Michael Ashburner's "Drosophila, A Laboratory Handbook" (the big grey one) is called "tissue culture." On page 118, he gives in-text citation of the original papers describing the origins of the cell lines, on pages 133-138 he gives the complete bibliographical references. Not to stroke MA's ego *too* much, I'd like to point out that *lots* of questions about Drosophila, and pointers to the primary literature, can be found by referring to his book. Errata may be found in the FlyBase directory at the IU molbio archives (gopher- and ftp-accessible). Start close to home... -- Mark D. Garfinkel (e-mail: garfinkl@iitmax.acc.iit.edu) My views are my own, which is why they're copyright 1994 .