
%0 Journal Article
%A W McKechnie, Stephen 
%A Morgan, Phillip 
%T Alcohol Dehydrogenase Polymorphism of Drosophila melanogaster: Aspects of Alcohol and Temperature Variation in the Larval Environment
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1982/02/01
%V 35
%N 1
%P 85-94
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9820085
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9820085 
%X Some natural habitats of D. melanogaster larvae were examined for short-chain alcohols by gas-liquid chromatography. All habitats contained a mixture of such alcohols, although ethanol predominated and was found at concentrations ranging from 0·02 to 4·0% (v/v). Normal propanol, propan-2-01, n-butanol and methanol were nearly always present. Larval-to-adult survival was determined at three temperatures on laboratory media supplemented with alcohol mixtures similar to those found in nature, and using strains which differed in alcohol dehydrogenase genotype. 
