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Acetic acid vapour is utilized as an energy source up to a threshold where it becomes a stress in 3Drosophila species. The threshold ranking isD. melanogaster» D. simulans>D. immigrans, which qualitatively parallels that for ethanol. The capacity to use nutritive vapours appears to be very important inDrosophila ecology.
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I thank Gary Spence for technical assistance, and the Australian Research Grants Committee for partial financial support.
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Parsons, P.A. Acetic acid vapour as a resource: Threshold differences among threeDrosophila species. Experientia 36, 1363 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01960099
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