From owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Aug 27 14:49:58 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C38617C4F for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:49:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6319617C4E for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:49:55 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6020) id 5631917C4D; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:49:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC7F17C1C for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:49:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net (newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.77.51]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C9F17A62 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:49:27 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA23014; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:48:49 -0700 (PDT) To: bionet-drosophila@net.bio.net From: Chris Jones <6kuritaro@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: FWD: Drosophila plague References: <3D780A36@webmail.ucis.dal.ca> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: <6kuritaro-82C77F.20512026082002@nnrp01.earthlink.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1030409329 63.214.222.140 (Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:48:49 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:48:49 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:49:53 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: c67530629d1f2a8e04b568f03df3bf197c396e98 Sender: owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk In article <3D780A36@webmail.ucis.dal.ca>, voulyano@dal.ca (voulyano) wrote: > Does anyone have any advice about how to cure flies of the plague > (the cultures are strong until they pupate at which point the pupae > turn black). The disease appears to be viral and spreads rapidly in > our incubators. Sounds like something that was rampaging through stocks at Cold Spring Harbor in the mid-90's; try emailing Jerry Yin there (probably yin@cshl.org, but I'm not certain), as I seem to recall one of his post-docs came up with a way to mitigate it. Good luck. Chris Jones -- To reply by email, please remove the initial digit from my address. Make the world a better place: shoot a spammer today! .