Phenogenetics of triploid intersexes in Drosophila melanogaster |
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Authors: | R Mann L Hake J C Lucchesi |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514. |
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Abstract: | Triploid intersexes homozygous for a mutant (msl-2) known to impede the hyperactivation of the X chromosome in diploid males differentiate into adults, sexually indistinguishable from their heterozygous sibs. A shift toward female sexual differentiation mediated by manipulating the rearing temperature is accompanied by an apparent increase in the level of an X-linked gene product. This unexpected result is rationalized in terms of differential lethality of individuals at the two extremities of the distribution of X-activity levels in intersexes raised at a particular temperature. No evidence of a mosaicism comparable to the sexual mosaicism exhibited could be found with respect to an X-linked gene product in triploid intersexes. |
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