Satellites on the long Y chromosome arm: a familial Y/autosome translocation in man

1969 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 415-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Schmid
Genetics ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
P Ripoll ◽  
A Garcia-Bellido

ABSTRACT The frequency of spontaneous and X-ray-induced mitotic recombination involving the Y chromosome has been studied in individuals with a marked Y chromosome arm and different XY compound chromosomes. The genotypes used include X chromosomes with different amounts of X heterochromatin and either or both arms of the Y chromosome attached to either side of the centromere. Individuals with two Y chromosomes have also been studied. The results show that the bulk of mitotic recombination takes place between homologous regions.


1992 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne McLaren ◽  
Elizabeth Simpson ◽  
Colin E. Bishop ◽  
Michael J. Mitchell ◽  
Susan M. Darling

SummaryThe Sxr (sex-reversed) region that carries a copy of the mouse Y chromosomal testis-determining gene can be attached to the distal end of either the Y or the X chromosome. During male meiosis, Sxr recombined freely between the X and Y chromosomes, with an estimated recombination frequency not significantly different from 50% in either direction. During female meiosis, Sxr recombined freely between the X chromosome to which it was attached and an X-autosome translocation. A male mouse carrying the original Sxra region on its Y chromosome, and the shorter Sxrb variant on the X, also showed 50% recombination between the sex chromosomes. Evidence of unequal crossing-over between the two Sxr regions was obtained: using five markers deleted from Sxrb, 3 variant Sxr regions were detected in 159 progeny (1·9%). Four other variants (one from the original cross and three from later generations) were presumed to have been derived from illegitimate pairing and crossing-over between Sxrb and the homologous region on the short arm of the Y chromosome. The generation of new variants throws light on the arrangement of gene loci and other markers within the short arm of the mouse Y chromosome.


1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Ellis ◽  
John D. West ◽  
Katrine M. West ◽  
Roderick S. Murray ◽  
M. Christine Coyle

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 102781
Author(s):  
Agustin J. Ruiz ◽  
Caitlin Castaneda ◽  
Terje Raudsepp ◽  
Ahmed Tibary

Genetics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 737-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute Willhoeft ◽  
Gerald Franz

Abstract In the medfly Ceratitis capitata, the Y chromosome is responsible for determining the male sex. We have mapped the region containing the relevant factor through the analysis of Y-autosome translocations using fluorescence in situ hybridization with two different probes. One probe, the clone pY114, contains repetitive, Y-specific DNA sequences from C. capitata, while the second clone, pDh2-H8, consists of ribosomal DNA sequences from Drosophila hydei. Clone pY114 labeled most of the long arm and pDh2-H8 hybridizes to the short arm and the centromeric region of the long arm. In 12 of the analyzed 19 Y-autosome translocation strains, adjacent-1 segregation products survive to the late pupal or even adult stage and can, therefore, be sexed. This was correlated with the length of the Y fragment still present in these aberrant individuals and allowed us to map the male-determining factor to a region of the long arm representing ~15% of the entire Y chromosome. No additional factors, affecting for example fertility, were detected outside the male-determining region.


1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Mason

This paper extends the known geographic distribution of S. tuberosum siblings recorded in 1962 by R. Landau by analyzing the polytene chromosomes in the larva. Her seven basic IIS arrangements are augmented by the addition of four new types. These were St/A, A/A; CDE-2/CDE, CDE/CDE; Y2/AB, AB/AB; and FGI. These new siblings, like the originals, have fixed differences in chromosome arm IIS. One of these, FGI, distinguished by a high degree of polymorphism, and the presence of fixed differences from the tuberosum standard in arms IS, IL, and IIIL, occurred both in Alaska and Norway. A comparison of the standard tuberosum, the S. venustum, and the FGI sibling chromosome pattern revealed the FGI sibling to be much closer to the venustum standard than any other tuberosum sibling. A second new sibling (Y2/AB) from Norway differed from the standard in the Y chromosome by multiple rearrangements in IIS and two tandem inversions in IIL. The fixed changes on arms other than IIS in the FGI siblings and the Y2/AB sibling are the first to be detected in this complex. There were a number of shared inversions in the populations studied indicating a common ancestor and (or) introgression.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Abyt Ibraimov

In many animals, including us, the genetic sex is determined at fertilization by sex chromosomes. Seemingly, the sex determination (SD) in human and animals is determined by the amount of constitutive heterochromatin on Y chromosome via cell thermoregulation. It is assumed the medulla and cortex tissue cells in the undifferentiated embryonic gonads (UEG) differ in vulnerability to the increase of the intracellular temperature. If the amount of the Y chromosome constitutive heterochromatin is enough for efficient elimination of heat difference between the nucleus and cytoplasm in rapidly growing UEG cells the medulla tissue survives. Otherwise it doomed to degeneration and a cortex tissue will remain in the UEG. Regardless of whether our assumption is true or not, it remains an open question why on Y chromosome there is a large constitutive heterochromatin block? What is its biological meaning? Does it relate to sex determination, sex differentiation and development of secondary sexual characteristics? If so, what is its mechanism: chemical or physical? There is no scientifically sound answer to these questions.


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