ISSN:
1432-0886
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Conventional types of cytogenetic studies with the mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso), are possible with the use of genetic markers and meiotic analysis in the female. The loci of an eye-color mutant, salmon, and a wing-shape mutant, banjo, are linked with about 22 per cent recombination. These markers have been used in the identification and maintenance of lethals and rearrangements. All the cytologically identifiable rearrangements have proved to be reciprocal translocations, some symmetric, others, grossly asymmetric or otherwise complicated. No simple breakage products have been recovered. On the basis of their effects on crossing over, some of the lethals are believed to be associated with small rearrangements. The bivalents normally have one chiasma; only 1.2 per cent have two. Interference is decidedly decreased in chiasma formation in translocation heterozygotes, and in genetic recombination with suspected small rearrangements associated with lethals; it is also decreased, but less markedly, in genetic recombination with lethals in translocations. These various results are discussed in relationship to the holokinetic nature of the coccid chromosome, and natural increases in coccid chromosome number, as well as in regard to the effect of rearrangements on interference.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00284926
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