THE ORIGIN AND BEHAVIOUR OF CHIASMATA
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- 1 December 1932
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 63 (3), 368-371
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1537338
Abstract
The shortest chromosome pairs in this species have 1 chiasma, the longest (20 times as big) have only 2 or 3 chiasmata. This indirect relationship of chiasma frequency to length is an adaptation such as may well permit the pairing by chiasmata of the short 4th chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Origin and Behavior of Chiasmata. I. Diploid and Tetraploid tulipaBotanical Gazette, 1932