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The Physiology of Pupal Diapause in Flesh Flies

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Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition

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While visiting the University of Paris in 1963, Gottfried Fraenkel was attracted by a thriving colony of Sarcophaga argyrostoma cultured in the Laboratoire de Zoologie. He decided to transport some of these flesh flies back to Urbana, but since his journey included several more visits along the way he tried to slow down their rate of development. It was December. The days were short, the temperature cold. Each night he diligently placed the flies on the cool windowsills of his hotel room. When he arrived in Urbana, a few flies emerged immediately, but the majority remained as undifferentiated pupae and emerged only after several months. Professor Fraenkel thus inadvertently discovered diapause in flesh fly pupae and, along with Catherine Hsiao, published two papers (Fraenkel and Hsaio, 1968a, 1968b), that preliminarily described its environmental and endocrine regulation. Although Roubaud had experimented with a few diapausing pupae of S. argyrostoma as early as 1922 and diapause was also reported for Pseudosarcophaga affinis (Coppel et al., 1959; House, 1967), the Fraenkel and Hsiao papers provided the real impetus for the over 35 publications on flesh fly diapause that have since appeared.

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Denlinger, D.L. (1981). The Physiology of Pupal Diapause in Flesh Flies. In: Bhaskaran, G., Friedman, S., Rodriguez, J.G. (eds) Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3210-7_9

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