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Genetics, Vol 131, 321-332, Copyright © 1992
INVESTIGATIONS |
M. C. Zetka and A. M. Rose
Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z3
The rearrangement hIn1(I) was isolated as a crossover suppressor for the right end of linkage group (LG) I. By inducing genetic markers on this crossover suppressor and establishing the gene order in the homozygote, hIn1(I) was demonstrated to be the first genetically proven inversion in Caenorhabditis elegans. hIn1(I) extensively suppresses recombination in heterozygotes in the right arm of chromosome I from unc-75 to unc-54. This suppression is associated with enhancement of recombination in other regions of the chromosome. The enhancement observed maintains the normal distribution of events but does not extend to other chromosomes. The genetic distance of chromosome I in inversion heterozygotes approaches 50 map units (m.u.), approximately equal to one chiasma per meiosis. This value is maintained in hIn1(I)/szT1(I;X) heterozygotes indicating that small homologous regions can pair and recombine efficiently. hIn1(I)/hT2(I;III) heterozygotes share no uninverted homologous regions and segregate randomly, suggesting the importance of chiasma formation in proper segregation of chromosomes. The genetic distance of chromosome I in these heterozygotes is less that 1 m.u., indicating that crossing over can be suppressed along an entire chromosome. Since one of our goals was to develop an efficient balancer for the right end of LG I, the effectiveness of hIn1(I) as a balancer was tested by isolating and maintaining lethal mutations. The meiotic behaviour of hIn1(I) is consistent with other genetic and cytogenetic data suggesting the meiotic chromosomes are monocentric. Rare recombinants bearing duplications and deficiencies of chromosome I were recovered from hIn1(I) heterozygotes, leading to the proposal the inversion was paracentric.
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