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Temperatursensitive Mutanten im Y-chromosom von Drosophila hydei

Temperature-sensitive Mutants in the Y-chromosome of Drosophila hydei

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Mutations were induced in the Y chromosomal fertility genes of Drosophila hydei by EMS treatment of adult males. Four types of mutants were observed: 1. Sterile mutants without detectable cytological changes in Y chromosomal lampbrush loops. 2. Sterile males with morphologically changed loops. 3. Sterile males where one or several Y chromosomal loops are missing in the spermatocytes. 4. Mutants which are temperature-sensitive for sterility, development of loops or altered loop morphology. In this paper four Y mutants are described which are temperature-sensitive as regards fertility but which show unchanged lampbrush loops. They can be mapped in four different complementation groups. Two of those occur probably in regions of the Y chromosome without cytologically detectable lampbrush loops. All mutations are found in the distal half of the long arm. The temperature-sensitive period occurs during the primary spermatocyte stage and in early spermatid development while the manifestation of the effect occurs postmeiotically. The mutants are further characterized with respect to changes in the ultrastructure of the sperm at the restrictive temperature.

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Leoncini, O. Temperatursensitive Mutanten im Y-chromosom von Drosophila hydei . Chromosoma 63, 329–357 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399495

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