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A Robertsonian translocation results in a metacentric chromosome produced by the fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes. Rb heterozygous mice frequently generate aneuploid gametes and embryos, providing a good model for studying meiotic nondisjunction. We intercrossed mice heterozygous for a (7.18) Robertsonian translocation and performed molecular genotyping of 1812 embryos from 364 litters with known parental origin, strain, and age. Nondisjunction events were scored and factors influencing the frequency of nondisjunction involving chromosomes 7 and 18 were examined. We concluded the following: 1. The frequency of nondisjunction among 1784 embryos (3568 meioses) was 15.9%. 2. Nondisjunction events were distributed nonrandomly among progeny. This was inferred from the distribution of the frequency of trisomics and uniparental disomics (UPDs) among all litters. 3. There was no evidence to show an effect of maternal or paternal age on the frequency of nondisjunction. 4. Strain background did not play an appreciable role in nondisjunction frequency. 5. The frequency of nondisjunction for chromosome 18 was significantly higher than that for chromosome 7 in males. 6. The frequency of nondisjunction for chromosome 7 was significantly higher in females than in males. These results show that molecular genotyping provides a valuable tool for understanding factors influencing meiotic nondisjunction in mammals.  相似文献   

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Aneuploidy results from nondisjunction of chromosomes in meiosis and is the leading cause of developmental disabilities and mental retardation in humans. Therefore, understanding aspects of chromosome segregation in a genetic model is of value. Mice heterozygous for a (2.8) Robertsonian translocation were intercrossed with chromosomally normal mice and Chromosome 2 was genotyped for number and parental origin in 836 individuals at 8.5 dpc. The frequency of nondisjunction of this Robertsonian chromosome is 1.58%. Trisomy of Chromosome 2 with two maternally derived chromosomes is the most developmentally successful aneuploid karyotype at 8.5 dpc. Trisomy of Chromosome 2 with two paternally derived chromosomes is developmentally delayed and less frequent than the converse. Individuals with maternal or paternal uniparental disomy of Chromosome 2 were not detected at 8.5 dpc. Nondisjunction events were distributed randomly across litters, i.e., no evidence for clustering was found. Transmission ratio distortion is frequently observed in Robertsonian chromosomes and a bias against the transmission of the (2.8) Chromosome was detected. Interestingly, this was observed for female and male transmitting parents.  相似文献   

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Distal mouse chromosome 12 is imprinted. Phenotypic analysis of mouse embryos with maternal or paternal uniparental disomy for the whole of chromosome 12 has characterized the developmental defects associated with the altered dosage of imprinted genes on this chromosome. Here we conduct a characterization of maternal and paternal Dp(dist12) mice using the reciprocal translocation T(4;12)47H. This limits the region analysed to the chromosomal domain distal to the T47H breakpoint in B3 on mouse chromosome 12. Both MatDp(dist12)T47H and PatDp(dist12)T47H conceptuses are non-viable and the frequency of recovery of Dp(dist12) conceptuses by 10.5 days post coitum (dpc) was lower than expected after normal adjacent-1 disjunction. A subset of MatDp(dist12) embryos can survive up to one day post partum. In contrast to paternal uniparental disomy 12 embryos, no live PatDp (dist12) embryos were recovered after 16.5 days of gestation. Other phenotypes observed in maternal and paternal chromosome 12 uniparental disomy mice are recapitulated in the Dp(dist12) mice and include placental, muscle and skeletal defects. Additional defects were also noted in the skin of both MatDp(dist12) and maternal uniparental disomy 12 embryos. This study shows that the developmental abnormalities associated with the altered parent of origin for mouse chromosome 12 can be attributed to the genomic region distal to the T47H breakpoint.  相似文献   

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To correlate the chromosomal constitution of meiotic cells with possible disturbances in spindle function and the etiology of nondisjunction, we examined the spindle apparatus and chromosome behavior in maturing oocytes and analyzed the chromosomal constitution of metaphase II-arrested oocytes of CD/Cremona mice, which are heterozygous for a large number of Robertsonian translocation chromosomes (18 heterobrachial metacentrics in addition to two acrocentric chromosomes 19 and two X chromosomes). Spreading of oocytes during prometaphase 1 revealed that nearly all oocytes of the heterozygotes contained one large ring multivalent, apart from the bivalents of the two acrocentric chromosomes 19 and the X chromosomes, indicating that proper pairing and crossing-over between the homologous chromosome arms of all heterobrachial chromosomes took place during prophase. A large proportion of in vitro-matured oocytes arrested in metaphase II exhibited numerical chromosome aberrations (26.5% hyperploids, 40.8% hypoploids, and 6.1% diploids). In addition, some of the oocytes with euploid chromosome numbers (26.5% of the total examined) appeared to be nullisomic for one chromosome and disomic for another chromosome, so that aneuploidy levels may even be higher than expected on the basis of chromosome counts alone. Although oocytes of the complex heterozygous mice seemed able initially to form a bipolar spindle during first prometaphase, metaphase I spindles were frequently asymmetrical. Chromosomes in the multivalent did not align properly at the equator, centromeres of neighboring chromosomes in the multivalent remained maloriented, and pronounced lagging of chromosomes was observed at telophase I in oocytes obtained from the Robertsonian translocation heterozygotes. Therefore, disturbance in spindle structure and chromosome behavior appear to correlate with the chromosomal constitution in these oocytes and, ultimately, with failures in proper chromosome separation. In particular, reorientation appears to be a rare event, and malorientation of chromosomes may remain uncorrected throughout prometaphase, as we could not find many typical metaphase I stages in heterozygotes. This, in turn, could be the basis for malsegregation at anaphase and may ultimately induce a high rate of nondisjunction and aneuploidy in the oocytes of CD/Cremona mice, leading to total sterility in heterozygous females.  相似文献   

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A new murine tester stock for primary nondisjunction incorporates three genetically marked Robertsonian translocations with tribrachial homology (TBH): Rb(6.15)1Ald, Rb(4.6)2Bnr, and Rb(4.15)4Rma. The resultant tricentromeric meiotic configuration leads to 100% aneuploid gametes, but the TBH stock can be maintained by intercrossing, through the complementation of nullisomic and disomic gametes. The only neonatal survivors from tescrosses to wild type come from complementation of aneuploid gametes and genetic tests allow wild type gains or losses of Chromosomes 4, 6, and 15 to be distinguished. Alternatively, cytogenetic examination allows products of wild type chromosome gain, with one metacentric, to be separated from chromosome loss with two metacentrics. A pilot study, with 0-2 Gy X-irradiation of oocytes at diakinesis, revealed twelve examples of chromosome loss in wild type gametes but none of chromosome gain and thus provided no evidence for the induction of nondisjunction.  相似文献   

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Paternal uniparental disomy (UPD) of chromosome 6 has been reported several times in patients with (transient) neonatal diabetes mellitus ((T)NDM). Here we present our short tandem repeat typing results in a new patient with NDM, revealing a paternal isodisomy (UPiD). Summarising these data with those published previously on complete paternal (n=13) and maternal (n=2) UPD6, all cases show isodisomy. In general, several modes of UPD formation have been suggested: While a meiotic origin of UPD mainly results in a uniparental heterodisomy (UPhD), UPiD is probably the result of a post-zygotic mitotic error. This mode of formation consists of a mitotic nondisjunction in a disomic zygote, followed by either a trisomic rescue or a reduplication. Endoduplication in a monosomic zygote is another possible but less probable mechanism, taking into consideration that monosomic zygotes are not viable. The exclusive finding of isodisomy in case of chromosome 6 therefore gives strong evidence that segregational errors of this chromosome are mainly influenced by postzygotic factors. This hypothesis is supported by the observation of two cases with partial paternal UPiD6 originating from mitotic recombination events. The influence of mitotic segregational errors in UPD6 formation is in agreement with the results in trisomy/UPD of other chromosomes of the C group (7 and 8), and is in remarkable contrast to the findings in studies on the origin of the frequent aneuploidies. Multiple factors ensure normal segregation and we speculate that they vary in importance for each chromosome.  相似文献   

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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is defined as a significant departure from expected Mendelian ratios of inheritance of an allele or chromosome. TRD is observed among specific regions of the mouse and human genome and is frequently associated with chromosome rearrangements such as Robertsonian (Rb) chromosomes. We intercrossed mice heterozygous for a (7.18) Rb translocation and genotyped chromosomes 7 and 18 in 1812 individuals, 47% of which were informative for chromosome segregation. We substantiated previous findings that females were less likely than expected to transmit the Rb chromosome to their offspring. Surprisingly, however, we report that heterozygous males transmitted the Rb translocation chromosome significantly more frequently than the acrocentrics. The transmission of the Rb chromosome was not significantly influenced by either the sex of the Rb grandparent or the strain of the Rb.  相似文献   

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A 9-year-old mentally retarded girl with multiple congenital anomalies was found to carry a balanced 13/14 Robertsonian translocation [45,XX,t(13q14q)] which was also present in her father. Her mother carried a balanced reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 1 and 14 [46,XX,t(1;14) (q32;q32)]. Both of her parents were phenotypically normal. Molecular studies were carried out to determine the parental origin of chromosomes 1, 13, and 14 in the patient. Using probes for D14S13 and D14S22, we could show that the patient inherited both chromosomes 14 from her father and none from her mother. Similar studies using probes for chromosomes 1 (D1S76) and 13 (D13S37) loci showed the presence of both maternal and paternal alleles in the patient. Our findings indicate that paternal uniparental heterodisomy for chromosome 14 most likely accounts for the phenotypic abnormalities observed in our patient. It is suggested that uniparental disomy may be the basis for abnormal development in at least some phenotypically abnormal familial balanced-translocation carriers.  相似文献   

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Molecular analysis of a patient affected by the autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia, pycnodysostosis (cathepsin K deficiency; MIM 265800), revealed homozygosity for a novel missense mutation (A277V). Since the A277V mutation was carried by the patient's father but not by his mother, who had two normal cathepsin K alleles, paternal uniparental disomy was suspected. Karyotyping of the patient and of both parents was normal, and high-resolution cytogenetic analyses of chromosome 1, to which cathepsin K is mapped, revealed no abnormalities. Evaluation of polymorphic DNA markers spanning chromosome 1 demonstrated that the patient had inherited two paternal chromosome 1 homologues, whereas alleles for markers from other chromosomes were inherited in a Mendelian fashion. The patient was homoallelic for informative markers mapping near the chromosome 1 centromere, but he was heteroallelic for markers near both telomeres, establishing that the paternal uniparental disomy with partial isodisomy was caused by a meiosis II nondisjunction event. Phenotypically, the patient had normal birth height and weight, had normal psychomotor development at age 7 years, and had only the usual features of pycnodysostosis. This patient represents the first case of paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 1 and provides conclusive evidence that paternally derived genes on human chromosome 1 are not imprinted.  相似文献   

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The spontaneous appearance of a Robertsonian translocation in a laboratory colony of genetically wild Peru-Coppock mice gave the opportunity to study potential meiotic nondisjunction soon after the formation of the new chromosome and also in a hitherto untested combination of genotype and environment Metaphase II scores from the progenitor male had indicated a nondisjunction rate of approximately 10%, a figure that was confirmed by the finding of an estimated 12-16% total trisomic and probable monosomic zygotes in chromosomal studies of Day 9 embryos from heterozygous females. The chromosome studies also showed the presence of a significant excess of normal embryos that were heterozygous for the Robertsonian chromosome.  相似文献   

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We carried out systematic studies of the contribution of uniparental disomy for eight human chromosomes, 2, 9, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, and 21, to the etiology of spontaneous mortality of human embryos. Most of these chromosomes have regions with orthologous imprinted genes syntenic with those on mouse chromosomes, the disturbed expression of which is related to embryolethality in mice. Screening of uniparental disomy in spontaneous 5- to 16-week abortuses was performed by evaluation of the pattern of inheritance of alleles of polymorphic microsatellite loci located in the studied chromosomes. A total of 100 human embryos with cytogenetically determined normal karyotype were studied, in which arrest at the early stages of intrauterine development was determined by ultrasound examination of pregnant women. During this study, 13 embryos were discarded due to karyotype anomalies or nonpaternity. No cases of uniparental disomy were found among the 87 studied abortuses for any of chromosomes studied. The analysis of the results of this study and four other studies concerning the search for uniparental disomy in dead embryos and fetuses did not reveal its elevated frequency in spontaneous abortuses as compared to the theoretically expected value based on evaluation of the probable combination of meiotic errors in human gametes. The data we obtained suggest that, first, uniparental disomies for human chromosomes that have regions with orthologous imprinted genes syntenic with mouse chromosomes do not contribute noticeably to the death of human embryos at the early developmental stages and, second, the mechanisms underlying embryolethality as a result of disturbed expression of imprinted loci differ markedly in mammals evolutionarily remote from one other.  相似文献   

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Chinese hamster stocks with various structurally abnormal chromosomes have been produced by X irradiation. Among these stocks, 18 with various reciprocal translocations were used to investigate the participation of unbalanced gametes in fertilization and the development of unbalanced embryos. Among males as well as females heterozygous for the same translocation, there is no difference in the frequency of each disjunctional class. The participation of chromosomally unbalanced gametes in fertilization was investigated by chromosomal analysis of meiotic cells in heterozygotes for the 18 reciprocal translocations and pronuclei of fertilized ova obtained from crossing these heterozygotes. Compared with the expected frequencies from MII scoring, the frequencies of male pronuclei having a common deficiency of chromosome 1 (1q17-->1q42) or chromosome 3 (3p23-->3q31) decreased significantly in one-cell embryos. However, the frequencies of male pronuclei with other abnormalities were all consistent with those expected from MII scoring. In contrast, the frequencies of female pronuclei with any karyotype including the same abnormalities as those decreased in male pronuclei from the translocation heterozygotes were all consistent with those estimated from MII scoring. These results revealed clearly that most gametes with nullisomies as well as disomies for any chromosomal segments may participate in fertilization, whereas only male gametes nullisomic for certain segments of chromosomes 1 and 3 failed to participate in fertilization. The zygotic selection of chromosomal imbalance was also investigated by direct chromosomal and morphological analyses of preimplantation embryos from crosses between karyotypically normal females and male heterozygotes from the 18 stocks with various reciprocal translocations. These analyses revealed that some embryos were arrested in development at the two-cell stage. The karyotype of these two-cell embryos had a common deficiency in a segment of chromosome 1 or chromosome 2. Embryos with partial monosomy including chromosomes 1, 3, 4 and 5 showed arrested development at four- to eight-cell stages. Among day 4 embryos, some chromosomally unbalanced embryos, mainly with a deficiency of segments of chromosomes 1p, 1q, 2q, 5q, 7q and 8, had fewer blastomeres than karyotypically normal and balanced embryos. The homology between Chinese hamster and mouse chromosomes relating to abnormal embryogenesis at early stages has been partially confirmed from reported maps of chromosomes. The Chinese hamster is useful for further cytogenetic studies during the stages of meiosis and early embryogenesis.  相似文献   

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We carried out systematic studies of the contribution of uniparental disomy for eight human chromosomes, 2, 9, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, and 21, to the etiology of embryolethality. Most of these chromosomes have regions with orthologous imprinted genes syntenic with those on mouse chromosomes, the disturbed expression of which is related to embryolethality in mice. Screening of uniparental disomy in spontaneous abortuses of 5–16 weeks of pregnancy was performed by evaluation of the pattern of inheritance of alleles of polymorphic microsatellite loci located in the studied chromosomes. A total of 100 human embryos with cytogenetically determined normal karyotype were studied, in which arrest at the early stages of intrauterine development was determined by ultrasound examination of pregnant women. During this study, 13 embryos were discarded due to revealed karyotype anomalies or nonpaternity. No cases of uniparental disomy were found among the 87 studied abortuses for any of chromosomes studied. The analysis of the results of this study and four other studies concerning the search for uniparental disomy in dead embryos and fetuses did not reveal its elevated frequency in spontaneous abortuses as compared to the theoretically expected value based on evaluation of the probable combination of meiotic errors in human gametes. The data we obtained suggest that, first, uniparental disomies for human chromosomes that have regions with orthologous imprinted genes syntenic with mouse chromosomes do not contribute noticeably to the death of human embryos at the early developmental stages and, second, the mechanisms underlying embryolethality as a result of disturbed expression of imprinted loci differ markedly in evolutionarily remote mammals.  相似文献   

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Thirty-two cases of uniparental disomy (UPD), ascertained from Prader-Willi syndrome patients (N = 27) and Angelman syndrome patients (N = 5), are used to investigate the pattern of recombination associated with nondisjunction of chromosome 15. In addition, the meiotic stage of nondisjunction is inferred by using markers mapping near the centromere. Two basic approaches to the analysis of recombination are utilized. Standard methods of centromere mapping are employed to determine the level of recombination in specific pairwise intervals along the chromosome. This method shows a significant reduction in recombination for two of five intervals examined. Second, the observed frequency of each recombinant class (i.e., zero, one, two, three, or more observable crossovers) is compared with expected values. This is useful for testing whether the reduction in recombination can be attributed solely to a proportion of cases with no recombination at all (because of asynapsis), with the remaining groups showing normal recombination (or even excess recombination), or whether recombination is uniformly reduced. Analysis of maternal UPD(15) data shows a slight reduction in the multiple-recombinant classes, with a corresponding increase in both the zero- and one-recombinant classes over expected values. The majority, more than 82%, of the extra chromosomes in maternal UPD(15) cases are due to meiotic I nondisjunction events. In contrast, most paternal UPD(15) cases so far examined appear to have a postzygotic origin of the extra paternal chromosome.  相似文献   

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Translocation induced in the immature oocyte, in meiotic prophase, affects division I orientation and segregation, the usual result being that the two halves of translocations are directed to opposite poles. Since interchange is usually (if not exclusively) between chromatids, this is to be expected from the creation of illegitimate conjunctions. Good agreement is obtained between patterns of segregations deduced from recovered half-translocation bearing exceptions and the kinds of disomic gametes expected as alternative recoveries from the same division I configurations. Inferences drawn from the study of compound-X females have been found to apply as well in the case of females of normal karyotype. Numerical errors occur predominantly, possibly exclusively, in division I. The rate of induced nondisjunction of specific chromosome pairs varies in relation to the structure of the entire complement, as required if radiation-induced nondisjunction is interchange dependent, but which would be unexpected if the mechanism involved effects on individual spindle fibers, chromosomes, or chromosomal bivalents.  相似文献   

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Centromere protein B (CENP-B) is a constitutive protein that binds to a highly conserved 17bp motif located at most mammalian centromeres. To determine whether disruption of this gene affects chromosome segregation in male germ cells, we evaluated the frequencies of disomic and diploid sperm in CENP-B heterozygous and homozygous null mice using the mouse epididymal sperm aneuploidy (m-ESA) assay, a multicolor FISH method with probes for chromosomes X, Y and 8. The specificity and sensitivity of the m-ESA assay was demonstrated using Robertsonian (2.8) translocation heterozygotes as positive controls for sperm aneuploidy. Our results show that the frequencies of disomic and diploid sperm did not differ significantly between CENP-B heterozygous and homozygous null mice (P> or = 0.5) or from 129/Swiss isogenic mice (P> or = 0.5) and B6C3F1 mice (P> or = 0.2). These findings indicate that CENP-B does not have an essential role during chromosome segregation in male meiosis.  相似文献   

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Uniparental disomy has recently been recognized to cause human disorders, including Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). We describe a particularly instructive case which raises important issues concerning the mechanisms producing uniparental disomy and whose evaluation provides evidence that trisomy may precede uniparental disomy in a fetus. Chorionic villus sampling performed for advanced maternal age revealed trisomy 15 in all direct and cultured cells, though the fetus appeared normal. Chromosome analysis of amniocytes obtained at 15 wk was normal in over 100 cells studied. The child was hypotonic at birth, and high-resolution banding failed to reveal the deletion of 15q11-13, a deletion which is found in 50%-70% of patients with PWS. Over time, typical features of PWS developed. Molecular genetic analysis using probes for chromosome 15 revealed maternal disomy. Maternal nondisjunction with fertilization of a disomic egg by a normal sperm, followed by loss of the paternal 15, is a likely cause of confined placental mosaicism and uniparental disomy in this case of PWS, and advanced maternal age may be a predisposing factor.  相似文献   

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In Drosophila melanogaster, gametes formed by oocytes in which Robertsonian translocations were induced in an immature stage usually show chromosomal imbalance. It is estimated that fewer than 20% of the gametes bearing newly induced Robertsonian translocations “fusing” X and fourth chromosomes are of balanced constitution. In contrast, when the two acrocentric pairs, X and fourth chromosomes, are replaced by an X-4 Robertsonian translocation, treatment of immature oocytes of homozygotes produces some 5–6-fold fewer sex-chromosome trisomics than do females of normal karyotype. In the place of such trisomics (having separate sex chromosomes), there is a much smaller number of compound-X chromosomes formed and a number of compound-fourth chromosomes as well. However, the production of “XO” males is not appreciably smaller in the translocation homozygotes. A number of possible mechanisms to account for this are suggested. The findings are consistent with the expectations of the hypothesis that radiation-induced nondisjunction results from improper conjunctions of heterologues, brought about by chromatid interchange7–12, 16.  相似文献   

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One t(14q14q), three t(15q15q), two t(21q21q), and two t(22q22q) nonmosaic, apparently balanced, de novo Robertsonian translocation cases were investigated with polymorphic markers to establish the origin of the translocated chromosomes. Four cases had results indicative of an isochromosome: one t(14q14q) case with mild mental retardation and maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) for chromosome 14, one t(15q15q) case with the Prader-Willi syndrome and UPD(15), a phenotypically normal carrier of t(22q22q) with maternal UPD(22), and a phenotypically normal t(21q21q) case of paternal UPD(21). All UPD cases showed complete homozygosity throughout the involved chromosome, which is supportive of a postmeiotic origin. In the remaining four cases, maternal and paternal inheritance of the involved chromosome was found, which unambiguously implies a somatic origin. One t(15q15q) female had a child with a ring chromosome 15, which was also of probable postmeiotic origin as recombination between grandparental haplotypes had occurred prior to ring formation. UPD might be expected to result from de novo Robertsonian translocations of meiotic origin; however, all de novo homologous translocation cases, so far reported, with UPD of chromosomes 14, 15, 21, or 22 have been isochromosomes. These data provide the first direct evidence that nonmosaic Robertsonian translocations, as well as isochromosomes, are commonly the result of a mitotic exchange.  相似文献   

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在鉴定遗4212中BYDV抗性携带染色体的染色体组起源以及被代换小麦染色体的基础上,研究了BYDV抗性携带染色体补偿小麦染色体的能力以及传递率等问题.结果表明,BYDV抗性携带染色体能较好补偿小麦第2、第5以及第7部分同源群的染色体;在二体代换系中,该染色体优先取代2D小麦染色体、而非2A、2B小麦染色体;(77-5433×遗4212)自交F2群体中共出现10种染色体组成类型,其中一种为非预期类型,染色体数目变异较大而结构变异较少;该染色体的传递率以及携带该染色体配子的传递率分别为56.3%和33%,低于理论值75%和50%;并结合遗4212染色体组成鉴定结果探讨了相关结果产生的原因.染色体原位杂交是研究小麦背景下外源染色体遗传行为快速而准确的方法.  相似文献   

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