“…Besides Drosophila, cytological studies on the stress response have so far been limited only to a few other dipterans, namely, Chironomus (Yamamoto 1970, Vincent and Tanguay 1979, Lezzi 1984, Lezzi et al 1981, Nath and Lakhotia 1989, Morcillo et al 1982, 1994, Sass 1995, Sarcophaga (Bultmann 1986a, b), Parasarcophaga (Ranjan and Kaul 1988), Ceratitis (Papadimitriou et al 1998, Chrysanthakopoulou et al 1998, Lucilia (Joshi and Tiwari 2000), Bactrocera (Zambetaki et al 2000, Mavragani-Tsipidou 2002 and Rhynchosciara (Stocker et al 2006). Therefore, it is imperative that stress response is observed in other dipterans also with a view to understand the adaptive significance of stress response in relation to the organism diversity.…”