期刊
GENETICA
卷 127, 期 1-3, 页码 253-265出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-4147-8
关键词
Bombyx mori; deletion; female-killing; RAPD; sex chromosome; silkworm; translocation; W chromosome; Z chromosome
Bombyx mori is a female-heterogametic organism (female, ZW; male, ZZ) that appears to have a putative feminizing gene (Fem) on the W chromosome. The paternally transmitted mutant W chromosome, Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem, derived from the translocation-carrying W chromosome (p (Sa) + W-p + (od)), is inert as femaleness determinant. Moreover, this Df(p (Sa) + (p) W + (od))Fem chromosome has been thought to have a female-killing factor because no female larvae having the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome are produced. Initially, to investigate whether the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome contains any region of the W chromosome or not, we analyzed the presence or absence of 12 W-specific RAPD markers. The Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome contained 3 of 12 W-specific RAPD markers. These results strongly indicate that the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome contains the region of the W chromosome. Moreover, by using phenotypic and molecular markers, we confirmed that the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome is connected with a partially deleted Z chromosome and that this fused chromosome behaves as a Z chromosome during male meiosis. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the ZZW-type triploid female having the Df(p(Sa) supercript stop + (p) W + (od))Fem chromosome is viable. Therefore, we concluded that the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome does not have a female-killing factor but that partial deletion of the Z chromosome causes the death of the ZW-type diploid female having the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome. Additionally, our results of detailed genetic analyses strongly indicate that the female-killing chromosome composed of the Df(p(Sa) + W-p + (od))Fem chromosome and deleted Z chromosome was generated by translocation between the Z chromosome and the translocation-carrying W chromosome, p(Sa) + W-p + (od).
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