The Effect of Carbon Monoxide on the Oxygen Consumption of Drosophila Melanogaster Pupae

Abstract

The aim of these investigations is a study of the effect of carbon monoxide on developmental processes in Drosophila. Such a study involves, of course, a determination of the carbon-monoxide action in a quantitative manner, and for this purpose it seemed to be most suitable to undertake a study of the oxygen uptake in different pupal stages, first under normal conditions and then in various mixtures of oxygen and carbon monoxide.