ORGANIZATION AND MAPPING OF A SEQUENCE ON THE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER X AND Y CHROMOSOMES THAT IS TRANSCRIBED DURING SPERMATOGENESIS (original) (raw)

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06 January 1984

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01 August 1984

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Kenneth J Livak, ORGANIZATION AND MAPPING OF A SEQUENCE ON THE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER X AND Y CHROMOSOMES THAT IS TRANSCRIBED DURING SPERMATOGENESIS, Genetics, Volume 107, Issue 4, 1 August 1984, Pages 611–634, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/107.4.611
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ABSTRACT

The D. melanogaster DNA segment in the recombinant phage λDm2L1 contains at least eight copies of a tandemly repeated 1250-base pair (bp) sequence (henceforth called the 2L1 sequence). Testes from XO D. melanogaster males contain an abundant 800-base RNA species that is homologous to a 520-bp region of the 2L1 sequence. Blotting experiments show that the 2L1 sequence is repeated in the D. melanogaster genome and is present on both the X and Y chromosomes. With the use of X-Y translocations, the 2L1 sequence has been mapped to a region between kl-1 and kl-2 on the long arm of the Y chromosome. In Oregon-R wild type there are an estimated 200 copies of the 2L1 sequence on the X chromosome and probably at least 80 copies on the Y chromosome. In some other strains the repetition frequency on the Y chromosome is about the same, but the copy number on the X chromosome is much reduced. On the basis of the five strains investigated, there is a correlation between copy number of the 2L1 sequence on the X chromosome and the presence of a particular allele of the Stellate locus (Ste; _1_-45.7). It seems that low copy number corresponds to Ste + and high copy number corresponds to Ste. The Ste locus determines whether single or star-shaped crystals are observed in the spermatocytes of XO males. Studies using D. simulans and D. mauritiana DNA show that the 2L1 sequence is homologous to restriction fragments in male DNA but not female DNA, indicating that this sequence is present only on the Y chromosome in these two species. In DNA derived from D. erecta, D. teissieri and D. yakuba, there is very little, if any, hybridization with the 2L1 sequence probe.

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