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A cytogenetic study has lead us to a stock of fertile heterozygotes for a triple translocation. The chromosomal rearrangement has first been detected in a female resulting from a cross between a normal female and a male submitted to X ray-irradiation. The aberration consists of rearrangements between a chromosome 3, a chromosome 6 and a chromosome 7. Abnormal chromosomes have the following constitution: 7q−: the terminal portion of the long arm is lost and replaced by the end of the short arm of the chromosome 3. 6 q+: the terminal portion of the long arm is lost and replaced by the end of the long arm of the chromosome 7. 3p+: the terminal portion of the short arm is lost and replaced by the end of the long arm of the chromosome 6. On the analogy of the human chromosome standardization, the formula of heterozygotes is 24, t (3p+, 6q+, 7q−). The first meiotic division shows both in the female and in the male 9 bivalents and one hexavalent. The formulae of the gametes are the same in both sexes. When a heterozygote is bred with a normal individual the offspring is composed of phenotypically normal or abnormal animals, depending on their karyotypes. The unbalanced karyotypes are lethal or semilethal. The importance of the malformations depends on the temperature of the water where the animals grow. The study of the meiotic slides brings a cytological confirmation of the results obtained from the study of the phenotypes and karyotypes which appear in the offspring.
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Conter, A., Jaylet, A. Une triple translocation chez le Triton Pleurodeles waltlii . Chromosoma 46, 37–58 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00332338
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