Article
Sister-chromatid misbehavior in Drosophila ord mutants.
Genetics - 1 Dec 1992
Miyazaki W Y, Orr-Weaver T L
Abstract excerpt
In Drosophila males and females mutant for the ord gene, sister chromatids prematurely disjoin in meiosis. We have isolated five new alleles of ord and analyzed them both as homozygotes and in trans to deficiencies for the locus, and we show that ord function is necessary early in meiosis of both sexes. Strong ord alleles result in chromosome nondisjunction in meiosis I that appears to be the consequence of...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chromatids
- Chromosome Mapping
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Infertility, Female
- Male
- Meiosis
- Mitosis
- Mutation
- Nondisjunction, Genetic
- Ovary
