Sterility and Hypermutability in the P-M System of Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

AUTOR(ES)

Kocur, Gordon J.

RESUMO

Inbred wild strains of Drosophila melanogaster derived from the central and eastern United States were used to make dysgenic hybrids in the P-M system. These strains possessed P elements and the P cytotype, the condition that represses P element transposition. Their hybrids were studied for the mutability of the P element insertion mutation, snw, and for the incidence of gonadal dysgenesis (GD) sterility. All the strains tested were able to induce hybrid dysgenesis by one or both of these assays; however, high levels of dysgenesis were rare. Sets of X chromosomes and autosomes from the inbred wild strains were more effective at inducing GD sterility than were sets of Y chromosomes and autosomes. In two separate analyses, GD sterility was positively correlated with snw mutability, suggesting a linear relationship. However, one strain appeared to induce too much GD sterility for its level of snw destabilization, indicating an uncoupling of these two manifestations of hybrid dysgenesis.

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