Abstract:
The effect of culture media for Drosophila melanogaster including glucose, wheat bran and yeast added to the medium separately or jointly on the period of development, quantity of pupa and eclosion, body weight of adult and sexual rate of wild drosophila melanogaster and vestigial wing mutant were investigated. The results showed that glucose increased adult weight but decreased the quantity of offspring obviously, the addition of wheat bran and yeast shortened the developmental period and increased the quantity and weight of offspring, glucose, wheat bran plus yeast remarkably shortened developmental period, accelerated the arrival of peak of the appearance of pupa and adult, increased the quantity and weight of offspring. The optimized recipes in favor of the growth of the wild fly and its mutant was proposed.
