Late larval salivary glands of D. melanogaster of an exactly defined developmental stage (VP 0, i.e. prepupae ot later than 15 min after formation of the puparium) are cultured under sterile conditions in three standard media for insect tissue culture and in Ringer solution. In chromosomes II and III, variations in puff number and size are the same in vivo and in vitro, and almost all changes in puffing pattern are very similar to those appearing in normal development. They are the same in the four media. No additional puff is ever induced due to the medium. By contrast, salivary gland chromosomes from larvae of the late third instar before pupation do show different alterations in vitro than in vivo. This points to a threshold in the course of the puffing pattern between puff stage 8/9 and 10/11. The appearance of a substance causing prepupal changes in puffing is strictly correlated with the formation of the pupanium and the beginning of the intermoult phase in the prepupa. Comparing the results of the experiments it can be stated that the new control system is not based solely on the absence of ecdysone, but also on the existence of another inducer. Immediately after puparium formation the control by ecdysone is still active, together with the control by the supposed inducer. Later, control by ecdysone respectively by the puffs of the ecdysone cycle is substituted by the new control system, up to the next moult. As far as the chemical nature of the puffing inducer in the intermoult phase is concerned, further investigations are necessary.
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Dennhöfer, L., Müller, P. Die puff-Musterfolgen der Speicheldrüsenchromosomen aus wanderlarven und vorpuppen von Drosophila melanogaster in vitro. Genetica 48, 117–128 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127507
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