Y-chromosome length in sublines of two mouse strains

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benson E. Ginsburg ◽  
Lynne C. Vigue ◽  
William A. Larson ◽  
Stephen C. Maxson
Genome ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Eisner ◽  
Brenda A. Eales ◽  
Fred G. Biddle

The testis-determining autosomal trait (Tda) of the mouse was uncovered when the Y chromosome of the poschiavinus variety of Mus musculus domesticus was introduced into the C57BL/6J laboratory strain background. Testis development is normal in the F1 generation but, in the backcross and subsequent crosses to C57BL/6J females, XY individuals with the poschiavinus Y chromosome expressed bilateral ovaries or various combinations of an ovotestis with a contralateral ovary or testis or bilateral ovotestes and few had testes bilaterally. In other strain backgrounds, such as DBA/2J, XY individuals with the poschiavinus Y chromosome always expressed normal testes bilaterally. The first breeding analysis of this difference in the interaction of strain background with the poschiavinus Y chromosome suggested that the Tda trait was due to a single gene, but attempts to map it failed. We constructed two strains of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J that are consomic for the poschiavinus Y chromosome in order to conduct a segregation analysis of the Tda trait. In the C57BL/6J.Y-POS consomic strain, liability to express incomplete testis development is normally distributed and thresholds in development specify the probability of different classes of ovary, ovotestis, and testis combinations. Testis development is complete in the DBA/2J.Y-POS consomic strain. We demonstrated previously that the Tda trait of C57BL/6J is recessive to that of DBA/2J and the segregating first backcross generation of embryos rejected the single-gene model. We have extended our analysis to a F2 generation of embryos that also rejects a single-gene model. We also report a test mating analysis of the first backcross generation. It was initiated to provide an independent assessment of the single-gene model, but the analysis of the distribution of test mating results suggests that the difference in the Tda trait between C57BL/6J and DBA/2J may be due to a small number of loci, possibly four or five, and that the phenotypic effect between loci may be additive. Key words : mouse, Y chromosome, gonadal hermaphrodites, primary sex determination, autosomal testis-determining genes, multigenic threshold model.


1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale-Valérie Guillot ◽  
Frans Sluyter ◽  
Abdelkader Laghmouch ◽  
Pierre L. Roubertoux ◽  
Wim E. Crusio

Nature ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 315 (6014) ◽  
pp. 70-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Bishop ◽  
P. Boursot ◽  
B. Baron ◽  
F. Bonhomme ◽  
D. Hatat

Hereditas ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUHAN REITALU ◽  
SVEN BERGMAN ◽  
BERTIL EKWALL ◽  
BERTIL HALL

1995 ◽  
Vol 350 (1333) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  

There is now a substantial body of data showing that in eutherian mammals (mouse, rat, cow and man) XY conceptuses are developmentally more advanced (and consequently larger) than XX conceptuses of equivalent gestational age. This developmental difference is already discernible in the preimplantation period and it has been suggested that the more advanced development of XY embryos may be a consequence of the preimplantation expression of Y chromosomal genes such as Sry or Zfy . In the present paper sex-chromosomally variant mice were used to analyse the genetic basis of XX-XY differences as manifest at 10.5 days post coitum . The results show that the XX-XY difference is due to a combination of a Y chromosome effect and an effect of the difference in X chromosome constitution (2X v IX). The Y effect is not dependent on the presence of Sry . In the light of this and other studies, it is concluded that the Y chromosome of most mouse strains carries a factor which accelerates preimplantation development and that the resulting developmental advantage is carried over into the postimplantation period. The retarding effect of two X chromosomes is then superimposed on this Y effect subsequent to the blastocyst stage but prior to 9.5 days post coitum .


1987 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. R. Potluri ◽  
I. P. Singh ◽  
M. K. Bhasin

Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 351-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena ◽  
Elena de la Casa-Esperón ◽  
Tammi L Briscoe ◽  
Jan-Michel Malette ◽  
Carmen Sapienza

AbstractF1 backcrosses involving the DDK and C57BL/6 inbred mouse strains show transmission ratio distortion at loci on two different chromosomes, 11 and X. Transmission ratio distortion on chromosome X is restricted to female offspring while that on chromosome 11 is present in offspring of both sexes. In this article we investigate whether the inheritance of alleles at loci on one chromosome is independent of inheritance of alleles on the other. A strong nonrandom association between the inheritance of alleles at loci on both chromosomes is found among male offspring, while independent assortment occurs among female offspring. We also provide evidence that the mechanism by which this phenomenon occurs involves preferential cosegregation of nonparental chromatids of both chromosomes at the second meiotic divison, after the ova has been fertilized by a C57BL/6 sperm bearing a Y chromosome. These observations confirm the influence of the sperm in the segregation of chromatids during female meiosis, and indicate that a locus or loci on the Y chromosome are involved in this instance of meiotic drive.


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