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An assay of somatic recombination in male recombination lines of Drosophila melanogaster

✍ Scribed by James N. Thompson; R. C. Woodruff; G. Bradley Schaefer

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
502 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-6707

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✦ Synopsis

A variety of diverse genetic events, inchrding recombination in heterozygous males, sterility, and mutator activity, are often observed in hybrids produced when male Drosophila melanogaster from natural populations are crossed to laboratory strains. It has recently been observed that chromosome breakage in spermatocytes is correlated with male recombination and may indeed be the primary event explaining these diverse genetic phenomena. We have now tested whether increased recombination is also occurring in somatic tissue in these outcrossed lines; the evidence clearly demonstrates that it is not. These observations are discussed in the light of growing evidence that male recombination may be caused by a micro-organism.

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