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Abnormal chromosome 10 (K10) is known to increase recombination in maize and to induce preferential segregation in knobbed heterozygotes during megasporogenesis. In spite of the considerable interest generated by these findings, the origin of the K10 chromosome is unknown. It has been postulated that the extra segment of K10 arose by simple translocation between normal 10 and a B-chromosome. This hypothesis was tested by comparing meiosis in haploids with either K10 or the normal 10 and carrying a single B-chromosome. The frequency of bivalent configurations was found to be similar in the two types of haploids suggesting that the K10 and B-chromosomes do not share homologies that lead to chiasma formation. These results lend no support to the hypothesis that the K10 chromosome came from a B type. The implications of these results to the action of K10 at meiosis are also discussed.
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Snope, A.J. The relationship of abnormal chromosome 10 to B-chromosomes in maize. Chromosoma 21, 243–249 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329549
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