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Chromosome abnormalities in a wild population of Chorthippus brunneus

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    Bridges without fragments were observed at first anaphase of meiosis in the majority of individuals in a sample of 40 males from a wild population of Chorthippus brunneus.

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    These bridges occur only in the longer chromosomes and their frequency between individuals varies from 5 to 42%.

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    The exact nature of the bridges could not be determined. Various possibilities are considered and they appear to be due to errors involving sister chromatids or sub-chromatids.

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    One of the individuals in the sample was distinctively abnormal showing: a) stickiness, b) failure of pairing, c) delayed orientation of bivalents with proximal chiasmata, d) polyploid cells, e) L2-loop chromosomes at meiosis, f) acentric ring fragments, and g) breakage with or without interchange in the vicinity of the L2-loop.

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    Errors a—c are attributed to unbalance and the loop chromosome e to a duplication/deficiency difference between homologues which occurred during development. The duplication may be inverted.

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    Breakage in the vicinity of the loop may be due intra-chromosome crossing over in an inverted duplication while the other errors can be explained in terms of breakage and/or errors during replication in the loop.

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  1. The Genetics Department, The University of Birmingham, England

    B. John, K. R. Lewis & S. A. Henderson

  2. The Department of Botany, The University of Oxford, England

    B. John, K. R. Lewis & S. A. Henderson

  3. Zoology Department, University College, Cardiff, England

    S. A. Henderson

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John, B., Lewis, K.R. & Henderson, S.A. Chromosome abnormalities in a wild population of Chorthippus brunneus. Chromosoma 11, 1–20 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328644

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