From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Mon May 15 23:00:00 1995
Path: biosci!ns1.faseb.org!darwin.sura.net!martha.utk.edu!utkvx.utk.edu!boake
From: boake@utkvx.utk.edu (Chris Boake)
Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila
Subject: Re: CO2 Anesthetization
Date: 16 May 1995 12:04 EST
Organization: University of Tennessee
Lines: 14
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <16MAY199512045278@utkvx.utk.edu>
References: <9505102022.AA19965@newpisgah.keene.edu> <pab6awd.164.0010954C@leeds.ac.uk> <friedman-1205951727520001@ts8-37.upenn.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: utkvx1.utk.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>In article <pab6awd.164.0010954C@leeds.ac.uk>, pab6awd@leeds.ac.uk (A.J.
>Davis) wrote:
>> 
>> - CO2 has long term effects on behaviour, especially egg laying.  If your 
>> experiments involve behaviour at all then avoid CO2.



A few years ago a paper came out of Curtsinger's lab in which they showed
that the type of anaesthesia affected female mate-choice behavior for
quite a while afterwards.  Sorry I don't remember the citation; it was in
the late 80's I think.
--Chris Boake


.