The influence of culture density on the polyteny degree of giant chromosomes in inbred lines and hybrids of Drosophila melanogaster

Zhuravleva L.A., Strashnyuk V.YU., Shakhbazov V.G.

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The influence of culture density and genotype on the polyteny degree of giant chromosomes (PDC) in Drosophila melanogaster was investigated. The reliable depression of the polytene chromosomes endoreduplication function under increased culture density was revealed. The essential dependence of the PDC on the genotype was shown. Correlation between the PDC and the number of adaptive features was established. The certain parallelism between the increased heterosis effect on the number of quantitative characters and the superiority of the hybrids above the inbred lines on the PDC in conditions of high culture density was found out. The sex-dependent distinctions and maternal effect at the inheritance of the PDC in drosophila were shown.

Tsitologiya i Genetika 2004, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 46-51

Zhuravleva L.A., Strashnyuk V.YU., Shakhbazov V.G. The influence of culture density on the polyteny degree of giant chromosomes in inbred lines and hybrids of Drosophila melanogaster, Tsitol Genet., 2004, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 46-51.