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A Drosophila melanogaster strain from sub-equatorial Africa has exceptional thermotolerance but decreased Hsp70 expression.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Jun 2001
Zatsepina O G, Velikodvorskaia V V, Molodtsov V B, Garbuz D, Lerman D N, Bettencourt B R, Feder M E, Evgenev M B
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila melanogaster collected in sub-equatorial Africa in the 1970s are remarkably tolerant of sustained laboratory culture above 30 degrees C and of acute exposure to much warmer temperatures. Inducible thermotolerance of high temperatures, which in Drosophila melanogaster is due in part to the inducible molecular chaperone Hsp70, is only modest in this strain. Expression of Hsp70 protein and hsp70 mRNA is...
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