Das W-Chromosom von Ephestia kuehniella (Lepidoptera) und die Ableitung des Geschlechtschromatins |
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Authors: | Walther Traut Brigitte Rathjens |
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Institution: | (1) Lehrstuhl für Spezielle Zoologie, Arbeitsgruppe Entwicklungsphysiologie, der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
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Abstract: | The W-chromosome, though not conspicuous in normal metaphase chromosome preparations, can be demonstrated in early oocyte and nurse cell pachytene stages using a fluorescent Feulgen stain (BAO-S02). In such preparations, it appears as a continuously fluorescing thread, whereas Z-chromosome and autosomes give a distinct pattern of chromomeres and interchromomeres. Four -ray induced chromosome-fusions which had been shown genetically to include the W, combine this continuously fluorescing thread with a thread having an autosomal pattern of chromomeres, differing in the four fusion-chromosomes. Concomitantly the sex-chromatin is atypically separated into several smaller bodies in highly polyploid cells of individuals possessing these W-fusions, thus showing that sex-chromatin properties depend on the W. This abnormal behaviour of the sex-chromatin is interpreted as the result of the opposing tendencies of the autosomes to form separate chromocenters and the W-chromosome to produce a single big chromocenter during polyploidisation.
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