The Relationship of Homologous Synapsis and Crossing over in a Maize Inversion

AUTOR(ES)

Maguire, M. P.

RESUMO

Frequency of homologous synapsis at pachytene for a relatively short heterozygous inversion was compared to the frequency of crossover occurrence within the inversion and to the frequency of the presence of a recombination nodule within the homologously synapsed inverted region. Crossover frequencies were estimated from bridge-fragment frequencies at anaphase I and anaphase II. Recombination nodules (RNs) were observed in electron micrographs. Results show very similar frequencies of homologous synapsis and the occurrence of reciprocal recombination within the inverted region, consistent with the interpretation that establishment of homologous synapsis in this case is related to at least commitment to the form of resolution of crossover intermediates which gives rise to reciprocal recombination, not conversion only, events. An RN was generally found at pachytene in homologously synapsed inverted regions.

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