Loss of a paternal chromosome causes developmental anomalies among Drosophila hybrids.

doi:10.1038/hdy.1992.145

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Loss of a paternal chromosome causes developmental anomalies among Drosophila hybrids.

Heredity - 1 Nov 1992

Braverman J M, Goñi B, Orr H A

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Hybrids between Drosophila virilis and D. lummei suffer from developmental anomalies. Previous reports also suggest that these hybrids lose the D. lummei sixth chromosome early in development. Genetic and cytological data presented here confirm the loss of the microchromosome from both the soma a...

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Animals
Chimera
Chromosome Aberrations
Drosophila
Male
Phenotype
Temperature

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