Examination of a mutable system affecting the components of the segregation distorter meiotic drive system of Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1093/genetics/125.1.51

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Examination of a mutable system affecting the components of the segregation distorter meiotic drive system of Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetics - 1 May 1990

Golic K G

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Segregation distortion in Drosophila melanogaster is the result of an interaction between the genetic elements Sd, a Rsp sensitive to Sd, and an array of modifiers, that results in the death of sperm carrying Rsp. A stock (designated M-5; cn bw) has been constructed which has the property of indu...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Banding
Chromosomes
Crosses, Genetic
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genotype
Male
Meiosis
Mutation
Reproduction
Suppression, Genetic
X Chromosome

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