Recombination in Drosophila melanogaster male.
T-007 strain of Drosophila melanogaster is known to show recombination in males. The present study established the following points: (1) Clustering occurrence of recombinant, unequal recovery of complementary products of recombination, relatively high frequency of recombination around centromeric region, and relatively frequent occurrence of mosaic phenontype flies-all of these seem to indicate that a considerable fraction of male recombination in the T-007 strain is of premeiotic, or somatic origin, although a fraction still could be of meiotic origin; (2) Male recombination occurs in the third as well as in the second chromosomes, and the frequencies of recombinations are comparable between these two chromosome pairs.
D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster; D008297:Male; D008540:Meiosis; D009030:Mosaicism; D011995:Recombination, Genetic