Induced Chromosomal Breaks in Drosophila

Kaufmann, B. P. (1941) Induced Chromosomal Breaks in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 9. pp. 82-92. ISSN 0091-74511943-4456

URL: http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/9/82
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1941.009.01.011

Abstract

Determination of the nature of chromosomal alterations may be based on examination of changes occurring in nature or of those which arise spontaneously or are induced experimentally. Although the changes existing in natural populations of Drosophila are more widespread and diversified than was formerly suspected (see review by Dobzhansky, 1941), they obviously represent a residual group which has survived the control of natural selection. Thus inversions form by far the largest store of types detectable in these natural populations, although translocations as well as inversions are known to arise both as a result of X-ray treatment and spontaneously. Chromosomal alterations that have occurred in the phylogeny of Drosophila, as inferred through comparisons of the gene arrangements of related species, consist also largely of inversions, combined with rearrangements involving entire chromosome limbs and only very few short interstitial translocations.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: organism description > animal > insect > Drosophila
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosome
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosomes, structure and function > chromosome
CSHL Authors:
Communities: The Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 1941
Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2018 17:47
Last Modified: 24 Jan 2018 17:47
URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35895

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