BISEXUAL HYBRID STERILITY IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Open Access
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 89 (1) , 5-14
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/89.1.5
Abstract
A new type of hybrid sterility was investigated in D. melanogaster. Matings between strain 27 males from Para Wirra, South Australia, and Canton-S females produce 70-80% fully sterile male and female progeny. Strain 27 males produce sterile progeny when crossed to females of other geographic origins, but produce fertile progeny when crossed to a second sympatric strain. The sterility is avoided by lower rearing temperatures. Heat shock and tetracycline produce no improvement in the fertility of the hybrids. Normal flies produce sterile progeny when injected with, or fed, homogenates of sterile flies. A combination of maternal and paternal factors may interact to produce sterile hybrids by inhibiting gonad development.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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