THE GENETIC IDENTIFICATION OF A HETEROCHROMATIC SEGMENT ON THE X CHROMOSOME OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1 Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

An autosomal euchromatic maternal-effect mutant, abo (= abnormal oocyte), interacts with, or regulates the activity of, the heterochromatin of the sex chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. It is shown that this interaction or regulation with the X chromosome involves a specific heterochromatic locus or small region that maps to the distal penultimate one-eighth of the basal X-chromosome heterochromatic segment.

Submitted on December 21, 1973




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