author & date for common species

[Geoff Read]

BIOSIS's TRITON can answer such requests very nicely without leaving
your computer screen!

http://www.york.biosis.org/triton/indexfm.htm

Free at the moment.
It also will tell one if a proposed new genus is preoccupied.

> One is Drosophila melanogaster, which as everyone is aware is a favorite lab
> beast for developmental/ genetic studies.  So, I checked all the
> developmental biology, molecular biology, and genetic books that I could
> find and no one gives the author and date for this species.


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  Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>