Article
A hybrid dysgenesis syndrome in Drosophila virilis.
Genetics - 1 Nov 1990
Lozovskaya E R, Scheinker V S, Evgen'ev M B
Abstract excerpt
A new example of "hybrid dysgenesis" has been demonstrated in the F1 progeny of crosses between two different strains of Drosophila virilis. The dysgenic traits were observed only in hybrids obtained when wild-type females (of the Batumi strain 9 from Georgia, USSR) were crossed to males from a marker strain (the long-established laboratory strain, strain 160, carrying recessive markers on all its autosomes). The...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Drosophila
- Female
- Male
- Mutation
- Nondisjunction, Genetic
- Reproduction
- X Chromosome