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Description
Collecting virgin females has just gotten easier with our Easy Fly® Drosophila strains. Use them to replace the strain you would normally use for manual virgin collection. Fly stock undergoes heat shock treatment prior to shipping, which kills the males. This is a vestigial culture of 12–20 female adult virgins, with food.
Product Details
Vestigial (vg1) Carolina® Easy Fly® Drosophila culture of virgin female flies that exhibit the autosomal recessive trait of reduced wings and halteres. The Easy Fly® system produces male-free cultures by selectively killing male larvae with a 2-hour heat shock treatment, leaving only virgin females alive. Easy Fly® males contain a modified Y* chromosome with a gene that activates programmed cell death when larvae are exposed to high temperatures. Since only males have a Y* chromosome with this gene, female larvae are unaffected. Carolina performs the heat shock treatment in our laboratories, making your cultures ready to use upon arrival. For a complete guide on maintaining and studying Drosophila, including how to culture, anesthetize, and score them, and the genetic notations, consider our Carolina® Drosophila Manual (item #452620).
Note: When culture arrives, remove caps but leave plugs in place. Keep cultures out of sunlight and maintain at 68–77° F (20–25° C).
Product Features
- Each vial contains 12–20 female adult virgins; no larvae or pupae
- Flies ship in a vial with food
