DELAYED FORMATION OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS IN MOUSE PACHYTENE SPERMATOCYTES TREATED WITH TRIETHYLENEMELAMINE (TEM)
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- 27 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 85 (1) , 65-72
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/85.1.65
Abstract
Induction of chromosome aberrations in pachytene spermatocytes of mice by 2 mg/kg TEM was compared with induction by 400 R X rays. These doses induced comparably high dominant lethal effects in pachytene spermatocytes of mice. Cytological analysis at diakinesis-metaphase I stage showed that whereas 76.4% of the cells treated with X rays at pachytene stage had aberrations, the frequencies observed in two TEM experiments were only 0.8 and 2.2%. On the other hand, 5% of the progeny from TEM-treated pachytene spermatocytes were found to be translocation heterozygotes. This is the first report on the recovery of heritable translocations from treated spermatocytes of mice. The aberration frequencies observed for TEM in diakinesis-metaphase I were much too low to account for all the lethal mutations and heritable translocations. Thus, the formation of the bulk of aberrations induced by TEM in pachytene spermatocytes was delayed-a marked contrast to the more immediate formation of X-ray-induced aberrations. It is postulated that the formation of the bulk of TEM-induced aberrations in pachytene spermatocytes and in certain postmeiotic stages occurs sometime during spermiogenesis, and not through the operation of postfertilization pronuclear DNA synthesis.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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