Worm Breeder's Gazette 9(1): 39

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Some Chromosome Rearrangements

C. Kari, M. Winter, and B. Herman

A new X chromosome-duplication, called mnDp57(X;I), carries the wild-
type alleles of unc-2, unc-20, 
not carry the wild-type alleles 
of dpy-3 or dpy-8, which flank this region.  The duplication is 
situated less than one map unit from unc-54 I; it does not have much 
effect on crossing over on linkage group (LG) I, and it is homozygous 
viable.  Duplication-bearing males mate well.
The autosomal duplication mnDp37(III;f) is very large, extending 
from the left of dpy-1 (but not including unc-45), to the right of unc-
25 (but not including unc-64).  Because of the way in which it was 
made, it carries the mutation unc-32(e189).  It occasionally 
recombines with the normal chromosome III.  We have also obtained 
variants of mnDp37, some spontaneous and some apparently induced by 
gamma rays.  One spontaneous variant is called mnDp40(III;f); it 
carries the wild-type alleles of dpy-1, 
s several markers farther to the 
right, such as lon-1, unc-36 and unc-50.  
Hermaphrodites carrying mnDp40 give more nullo-duplication self-
progeny than do hermaphrodites carrying mnDp37.The X-ray-induced 
translocation mnT4(III;IV) was identified by virtue of its property of 
reducing the apparent recombination between dpy-1 and unc-32 to less 
than 1%.  Recombination on LGIV is not greatly affected.  There is 
strong pseudolinkage between dpy-1 III and unc-8 IV (about 1% 
recombination), suggesting that the latter is in the neighborhood of a 
breakpoint.  We have evidence for significant nondisjunction between 
mnT4 and the normal chromosome III, leading to animals that are 
mnT4/III/III.