Fine-Structure Analysis and Genetic Organization at the Base of the X Chromosome in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
AUTOR(ES)
Lifschytz, Eliezer
RESUMO
Genetic organization at the base of the X chromosome was studied through the analysis of X-ray-induced deficiencies. Deficiencies were recovered so as to have a preselected right end "anchored" in the centric heterochromatin to the right of the su(f) locus. "Free" ends of deficiencies occurred at any of 22 intervals in Section 20 and in the proximal portion of Section 19 of Bridges' (1938) polytene chromosome map. The distribution of 130 such free ends of deficiencies induced in normal, In(1)sc 8, and In(1)wm4 chromosomes suggests that on the single section level, genes are flanked by "hot" or "cold" sites for X-ray-induced breaks, and that occurrence of the hot spots is dependent on their interaction with the fixed-end sites in the centric heterochromatin. In the light of these results, it is argued that long heterochromatic sequences separate the relatively few genes in Section 20, and thus endow it with several characteristics typical of heterochromatic regions. Section 20 is considered to be a transition region between the mostly heterochromatic and mostly euchromatic regions of the X chromosome; the differences between them are suggested as being merely quantitative.
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