%0 Journal Article %T EFECTO DE DENSIDAD POBLACIONAL DE HUEVOS SOBRE VIABILIDAD Y TIEMPO DE DESARROLLO DE Drosophila melanogaster (DROSOPHILIDAE) %A FONG %A CRISTIAN %A D¨ªAZ %A FERNANDO %A OSORIO %A JULIO %A CASTANO %A LINA %A GONZ¨¢LEZ %A FANNY %A JURADO %A LAURA %A CASTILLO %A KATHERINE %A C¨¢RDENAS %A HEIBER %J Acta Biol¨®gica Colombiana %D 2008 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X for estimating the effect from population density of eggs over viability egg-adult in drosophila melanogaster, it was made three treatments in flasks with agar-banana culture media: densities of 10, 50 and 90 eggs. the effect evaluated was the adult£¿s proportion that emerged after 15 days of planting. the mean proportions of viability egg-adult were 0.32, 0.338 and 0.328 for the density of 10, 50 and 90 eggs respectively. significant differences in viability were not evident (p>0.05). consequently, it was not found effects from the eggs densities in the present study over egg-adult viability. these results probably were due to that the relation among number of eggs and quantity of culture media was not enough of a high for generate competition at another stadiums through the egg-adult development. %K density population %K drosophila %K eggs %K viability. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-548X2008000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en