The isolation of a mutation causing abnormal cytokinesis in male and split chromocenter in female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster

Hereditas. 2001;134(2):125-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2001.00125.x.

Abstract

The genetic screen for the meiotic mutations showing chromosome non-disjunction in mosaic clones of female germ line generated by FLP-FRT mediated mitotic recombination was performed. The sterile meiotic mutation ff16 (69D1-70A2) was found among the mutants obtained. In the male germ line the mutation showed lack of meiosis 1 cytokinesis and other meiotic abnormalities. The sterility of the mutant is due to the lack of the sperm motility. In female germ line the morphological defects-decreased number of ovarioles and nurse cells in the egg chambers is visible. At the cell level the mutation showed karyosome fragmentation constituting to the gene participation in chromocenter formation/maintance. The cases of the spindle fragmentation revealed the processes acting in female meiotic metaphase. Premeiotic and mitotic defects of the mutation have also been detected.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Division / genetics*
  • Cell Division / physiology
  • Drosophila melanogaster / genetics*
  • Female
  • Homozygote
  • Hot Temperature
  • Infertility, Male / genetics
  • Male
  • Meiosis / genetics*
  • Mutation
  • Recombination, Genetic
  • Sperm Motility / physiology
  • Time Factors