From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Thu Feb 08 22:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!iol!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: "Martin E. Feder" Subject: Pupae X-Nntp-Posting-Host: meflab.uchicago.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: University of Chicago Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 02:57:20 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-Url: news:bionet.drosophila Lines: 21 Does anyone have any information about natural pupation sites for Drosophila melanogaster, or any pointers to references or someone who would know? We are specifically interested in knowing how far larvae travel from host fruit to pupate, and whether pupation sites are sheltered or exposed to sunlight. This information is needed to interpret effects of Hsp70 overexpression on thermotolerance in wandering larvae and pupae. Dr. Martin E. Feder Professor Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy The University of Chicago 1027 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 USA E-Mail: m-feder@uchicago.edu Telephone: 312 702-8096 Fax: 312 702-0037 http://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/BSDinfo/FacInfo.cgi/Feder/Martin .