Isolation and Characterization of Sex-Linked Female-Sterile Mutants in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER with Special Attention to Eggshell Mutants
AUTOR(ES)
Komitopoulou, Katia
RESUMO
To study genes that function mainly or exclusively during oogenesis, we have isolated and analyzed female-sterile mutations, with special emphasis on those that affect eggshell formation. Following treatment that induced 61 to 66% lethals, 8.1% of the 1071 X chromosomes tested carried recessive female sterility mutations (87 isolates), and 8.0% carried partial female-sterile mutations (86 isolates), respectively. In addition, three dominant female steriles were recovered. Some of the mutants had very low fecundity, and others laid morphologically normal eggs that failed to develop. A third category included 29 mutants that laid eggs with morphological abnormalities: 26 were female steriles, two were partial female steriles and one was fertile. Mutants of this third category were characterized in some detail and compared with 40 previously isolated mutants that laid similarly abnormal eggs. Approximately 28–31 complementation groups with morphological abnormalities were detected, some of which were large allelic series (11, 9, 7, 6 and 5 alleles). Twenty-four groups were mapped genetically or cytogenetically, and 21 were partially characterized by ultrastructural and biochemical procedures. Of the latter, one group showed clear deficiency of yolk proteins, and nine showed prominent ultrastructural defects in the chorion (at least eight accompanied by deficiencies in characterized chorion proteins). At least six groups with clear-cut effects were found at loci not previously identified with known chorion structural genes.
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