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. 1981;84(2):231-42.
doi: 10.1007/BF00399134.

The distribution of SCEs within and between the genomes of an interspecific hybrid

P Sharp, D Hayman

The distribution of SCEs within and between the genomes of an interspecific hybrid

P Sharp et al. Chromosoma. 1981.

Abstract

The distribution of sister chromatid exchanges has been examined in the chromosomes of a hybrid male wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus female x Wallabia bicolor male), and in the X chromosomes of M. parryi and M. rufus. Comparisons were made of SCE frequency between the two genomes of the hybrid, only one of which has an appreciable amount of constitutive heterochromatin, and between he euchromatic and heterochromatic regions of the M. rufogriseus genome. The frequency of SCEs is closely correlated with the DNA content of the individual chromosomes. The distribution of the SCEs between the euchromatin and heterochromatin in the M. rufogriseus genome showed a deficiency of SCEs observed in the heterochromatin compared with the euchromatin. - A substantial excess of SCEs occurred at the nucleolar organiser region of the M. rufogriseus X chromosome. This excess was absent from the nucleolar organiser region of the X chromosome of the two other macropodine species studied and is accounted for by the presence of an adjacent euchromatin-heterochromatin junction.

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