Article
[Alcohol dehydrogenase and adaptation to ethanol in Drosophila].
Genetika - 1 Aug 1990
Khaustova N D, Totskiĭ V N
Abstract excerpt
The subject of this research is activity and allozyme spectra of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), and survival of mutant strains of Drosophila kept in standard nutrient medium with added ethanol. In all experiments the ADH of flies revealed greater affinity to isopropanol than ethanol. The mutant strains considerably differed from one another and from the wild type of flies in the level of enzyme activity, which may...
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