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Over the last 10 years, several genetic sexing strains have been isolated for the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, with the aim of improving the Sterile Insect Technique. However, a major problem with the currently used genetic sexing system, which is based on translocations, is their potential genetic instability. Therefore, careful monitoring and chromosome analyses are necessary when new genetic sexing strains are developed. Instability of a genetic sexing strain can be the consequence of recombination or the survival of aneuploid individuals occurring as a consequence of adjacent-1 segregation in the meiosis of males with Y-autosome translocations. Recently, genetic sexing strains have been isolated that show only low levels of recombination. However, many aneuploid flies are produced by these strains. Therefore, we have made an attempt to isolate new genetic sexing strains that show a low percentage of recombination and no survival of aneuploid individuals. We report their genetic behaviour and the polytene chromosome structure of these new strains.
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Kerremans, P., Franz, G. Isolation and cytogenetic analyses of genetic sexing strains for the medfly, Ceratitis capitata . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 91, 255–261 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00220886
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