The developmental genetics of hybrid inviability: a mitotic defect in Drosophila hybrids.
The developmental genetics of hybrid inviability: a mitotic defect in Drosophila hybrids.
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杂交不存活的发育遗传学:果蝇杂交中的有丝分裂缺陷。
DOI:
10.1093/genetics/145.4.1031
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Hawley,RS
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作者:
Orr,HA;Madden,LD;Coyne,JA;Goodwin,R;Hawley,RS
We report studies of the developmental basis of hybrid inviability in theDrosophila melanogastercomplex. The pathology of these hybrids closely resembles that of mitotic mutants inD. melanogaster. We use mosaic and cytological analyses to show that hybrid male inviability is associated with, and probably caused by, a defect in mitotic cell division. In the mosaic study, we find that male clones produced in otherwise female hybrids are not cell lethal but are very small, probably reflecting defects in mitotic proliferation. Cytological inspection of larval neuroblasts reveals a profound mitotic defect in hybrids: chromosomes show a near-complete failure to condense even after 2 hr of incubation in colchicine. Both the defect in clonal proliferation and in chromatin condensation are rescued by mutations known to rescue normally inviable hybrid males. We present a simple model in which hybrid inviability is partly or entirely caused by a mitotic defect; this defect is, in turn, caused by an interaction between theHybrid male rescue(Hmr) locus ofD. melanogasterand autosomal gene(s) fromD. melanogaster's sister species.