Increased number of nucleoli in the salivary gland cells of Drosophila melanogaster under conditions of rDNA dose compensation |
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Authors: | Evgenii P. Semionov Nikolai Kh. Kirov |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Abstract: | A considerable increase in the number of nucleoli non-associted with the nucleolar organizer (NO) was shown in the salivary gland cells of Drosophila melanogaster mutants, heterozygous for a deficiency of NO. The frequency of formation of additional nucleoli increased with the raising of the chromosome polyteny level. By means of in situ hybridization we showed that in the mutant and the wildtype polytene cells the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) of these unlawful nucleoli included ribosomal gene repeats (18S+28S) with two types of insertions: ivs-I and ivs-II Such additional nucleoli can be attached to varying sites of the polytene chromosomes containing type I insertion sequences. |
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