Study of the Effects of Sodium Chloride on Segregation-Distorter Action in D. melanogaster: 4. Treatment of Sodium Chloride on the Pupal Stages

In order to see if NaCl affected the the emergence rate and the SD action when treated it at the pupal stage of Drosophila melanogaster, an experiment was performed in which the resistibility to NaCl at the pupal stage was examined by the emergence rate and the effects of NaCl on the SD action was studied by k values. The four SD strains and two other strains (cn bw and Oregon-R) were used and NaCl media were prepared by adding NaCl at a concentration of 0.0M, 0.1M, 0.3M, 0.5M, 0.7M, and 1.0M to the standard media for the present experiment. The following conclusions were established: 1. The emergence rate (resistibility to NaCl) when treated NaCl at the pupal stage is significantly different not only among the strains but also among concentrations of NaCl. 2. The emergence rate decreases as concentration of NaCl increases but the rate of decrease shows rather constant so that the curves of decrease are not steep. 3. The emergence rate of the cn bw and Oregon-R strains shows higher value than of the four SD strains, implying that the resistibility to the NaCl is lower in the SD strains than in the two strains; not a few flies are emerged from the media of 1.0M of NaCl. 4. The difference in k values is not significant among concentrations of NaCl but among strains, the k values of the original SD strains are rather higher and constant but those of the recombinant SD strains are rather low and unstable. 5. The SD action is not affected by NaCl as far as once emerged from the culture media whether containing NaCl or not in any developmental stage. Thus such an experiment on NaCl effect is of little value to analyze the mechanism of the SD action in D. melanogaster.

초파리의 번데기 시기에 NaCl을 처리하였을때 우활율과 SD작용에 변동이 있는가를 보기 위하여 6가지 계통, 즉 SD 계통 4가지와 다른계통 2가지를 써서 6가지 농도의 NaCl사육배지를 만들어 실험한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 우화율(즉 NaCl에 대한 저항성)은 계통간이나 NaCl의 농도간이나 다같이 매우 유의적인 차이를 보이고 있다. 2. 우화율은 NaCl 농도가 높을수록 낮아지는 경향이 있으며, 이 저하는 완만한 편이고 발생의 각 단계중에서 번데기 시기가 NaCl의 영향을 가장 적게 받는다. 3. SD계통의 우화율은 다른 계통에 비하여 대체로 낮은 편인데, 이것은 SD계통이 NaCl에 대한 저항성이 다른 계통에 비하여 약한 것을 말한다. 4. SD작용의 척도라고 볼 수 있는 k 값은 NaCl의 농도간에 유의한 차가 없으나 계통간에는 유의적인 차이를 보이고 있으며, Original-SD 계통의 k값은 Recombinant-SD계통의 k값보다 높고 또한 안정성을 나타내고 있다. 5. NaCl은 SD작용에 영향을 미치지 못하며 발생의 어느 단계에 NaCl을 처리하거나 관계없이 일단 우화만 되면 SD작용에는 변동이 없다.