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Cytogenetics of the grasshopper Moraba scurra

VIII. A complex spontaneous translocation

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The cytology of a male individual of the grasshopper Moraba scurra which was heterozygous for a complex translocation involving breaks in four different, non-homologous, chromosomes, is described. Chains of up to eight chromosomes occur at first metaphase. Certain chromosomes which never normally show more than a single chiasma form two chiasmata with a fairly high frequency in this individual.

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  1. Zoology Department, University of Melbourne, Australia

    M. J. D. White

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Supported by Public Health Service Grant No. RG7212-Cl, from the Division of General Medical Sciences, U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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White, M.J.D. Cytogenetics of the grasshopper Moraba scurra. Chromosoma 14, 140–145 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00336755

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