CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENTS IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
Open Access
- 15 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 83 (1), 91-105
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/83.1.91
Abstract
A method for selecting unlinked duplications of a part of the X chromosome of C. elegans is described. Five such duplications have been identified. One of them, Dp(X;V)1, is translocated to linkage group V, where it suppresses crossing over along the left half of linkage group V. Dp(X;V)1 homozygotes grow slowly and are sterile. The other four duplications are associated with chromosome fragments, as observed cytologically by fluorescence microscopy, and tend to be lost. Their frequency of loss is higher in strains homozygous for a mutation that promotes nondisjunction of X chromosomes. The recombination frequencies between two of these duplications and the X have been measured: the frequencies are at least 50 times less than for X-X recombination in the same region. The duplications may prove useful as balancers of recessive lethal mutations.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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