Reversion from Roughest to Wild Type in Drosophila Melanogaster.
Reversion from Roughest to Wild Type in Drosophila Melanogaster.
复制标题
黑腹果蝇从粗糙型向野生型的逆转。
作者:
B. Kaufmann
OUGHEST is a sex-linked, recessive character of Drosophila melano- gaster manifested phenotypically in bulging, roughened eyes that have facets irregular in size and shape. The allele roughest3 (mi3) was obtained by GRUNEBERG (1935) from an X-ray experiment. Eyes of rst3 flies show mosaics of smooth and rough facets with rough patches more pronounced in the males than in the females. Roughness is accentuated if flies are raised at temperatures between 16 and 19°C; at higher temperatures the females more frequently overlap the wild type in appearance. Viability and fertility are good in both sexes. Genetic analysis (GRUNE-BERG 1935) indicated that rst3 is associated with a long inversion in the X chromosome (In(~)rst~), extending from the roughest locus to the right of the gene bobbed. Preliminary cytological studies by P. CH. KOLLER (reported in GRUNEBERG 1935) showed that the loop present in the salivary gland chromosomes of flies heterozygous for the inversion extends from a point between the loci of facet and ruby to the proximal heterochromatic region of the X. Subsequent analysis of salivary gland chromosomes by EMMENS (1937) disclosed that the left break of the inversion is in the 3C2 to 3C4 region. Studies made in this laboratory have confirmed EMMENS’S interpretation; the left break follows band 3C3 (BRIDGES’S 1938 map) and the inversion extends to about subdivision 20B. It does not include the nucleolus-organizing region, can be seen best in prophases of dividing neuroblasts The 3C4 band is thus associated with the roughest locus (confirmed by DEMEREC and SLIZYNSKA 1937), which on the genetic map is placed at 1.7 (GRUNEBERG 1937, from an analysis of rst2, which behaves as an allele).