Abstract
Discovery of permanent hybridity in the very large chromosomes of Gibasis pulchella (Commelinaceae) has allowed specific identification of segmental interchanges in complex heterozygotes. The interchanges are confined to terminal regions, are sometimes very small, and may be unequal in size. Breakpoints have occurred close to major C-bands, probably at euchromatin/heterochromatin boundaries. Complete and disjunctional ring formation at meiosis results in the segregation of two Renner complexes, each of which can be specifically identified with C-banding. The complex carrying the interchanges is usually transmitted through the pollen. Certain chromosomes that have undergone more extensive change than the rest of the complement may have some special significance. There is evidence of small duplications within heterozygous genomes. Permanent hybridity in different organisms may have quite different origins, possibly initiated by major karyotype repatterning following the activation of transposons that generate chromosome breakage.
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Abbreviations
- p :
-
Short arm
- q :
-
long arm
- M :
-
metacentric
- SM :
-
submetacentric
- BS :
-
bisatellited chromosome in population 4
- UB :
-
unbanded chromosome in population 4
- II :
-
bivalent; ⊙ closed meiotic ring configuration, e.g., ⊙ 10, ring of ten
- ch :
-
open chain configuration
- NOR :
-
nucleolus organising region
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Kenton, A., Davies, A. & Jones, K. Identification of Renner complexes and duplications in permanent hybrids of Gibasis pulchella (Commelinaceae). Chromosoma 95, 424–434 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333994
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