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Meiotic behaviour of compound chromosomes in tricomplex heterozygotes in Drosophila melanogaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Jaakko Puro
Jaakko Puro
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Department of Biology, University of Turku, SF-20500 Turku, Finland
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A tricomplex heterozygote has a synthetic chromosome complement consisting of four pairs of arms of chromosomes 2 and 3 in the form of a compound of two homologous arms (a homocompound) and of three compounds of two nonhomologous arms (heterocompounds), each being homologous to an arm of different compounds. In meiosis, pairing of homologous arms results in the formation of a single and a multiple configuration that are structural equivalents of a univalent and a trivalent. Data are presented indicating that, in a given complement, the pattern of the distribution of three heterocompounds at division I is the same in males and in females. The distribution depends on the arrangement of the 2nd and the 3rd chromosome centromeres in the trivalent. In configurations presumed to be homocentric (all three chromosomes having homologous centromeres), the distribution was random or nearly random while, in configurations presumed to be heterocentric, the distribution appears non-random, with one of the segregation alternatives being roughly twice as frequent as either one of the two other alternatives that were more or less equal in frequency. The results could be explained in terms of the 3rd chromosome centromere being ‘strong’ in directing the two 2nd chromosome centromeres to the opposite pole at division I, an explanation implying a functional differentiation of the two autosomal centromeres or adjacent sequences. Data are also presented showing that in females the distribution of the homocompound is non-random with respect to the distribution of the heterocompounds; the homocompound was recovered preferentially together with the single one of the three heterocompounds. This is inconsistent with the prediction based on the theory assuming an existence of two independent pairing pools.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 1985 , pp. 287 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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