LETHALS, STERILES AND DEFICIENCIES IN A REGION OF THE X CHROMOSOME OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

Philip M. Meneely ¹ and Robert K. Herman ²

¹ Department of Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
² Department of Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

Twenty-one X-linked recessive lethal and sterile mutations balanced by an unlinked X-chromosome duplication have been identified following EMS treatment of the small nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. The mutations have been assigned by complementation analysis to 14 genes, four of which have more than one mutant allele. Four mutants, all alleles, are temperature-sensitive embryonic lethals. Twelve mutants, in ten genes, are early larval lethals. Two mutants are late larval lethals, and the expression of one of these is influenced by the number of X chromosomes in the genotype. Two mutants are maternal-effect lethals; for both, oocytes made by mutant hermaphrodites are rescuable by wild-type sperm. One of the maternal-effect lethals and two larval lethals are allelic. One mutant makes defective sperm. The lethals and steriles have been mapped by recombination and by complementation testing against 19 deficiencies identified after X-ray treatment. The deficiencies divide the region, about 15% of the X-chromosome linkage map, into at least nine segments. The deficiencies have also been used to check the phenotypes of hemizygous lethal and sterile hermaphrodites.

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