Abstract
An examination of synaptic data from a series of X-autosome translocations and crossover data from an extensive series of autosome-autosome translocations and autosomal inversions in mice has lead to the development of a hypothesis which predicts synaptic and recombinational behavior of chromosomal aberrations during meiosis. This hypothesis predicts that in heterozygotes for chromosomal rearrangements that meiotically align G-light chromatin with G-light chromatin lack of homology will be recognized. If homologous synapsis cannot proceed, synaptonemal complex formation will cease and there will be no physical suppression of crossing over in such rearrangements. However, if a chromosomal rearrangement aligns G-light chromatin with G-dark chromatin at the time of synapsis, lack of homology will not be recognized and synaptonemal complex formation will proceed nonhomologously through the G-dark chromatin. Crossing over will be physically suppressed in this region and this suppression of crossing over will be confined to the chromosome in which the G-light chromatin is nonhomologously synapsed with G-dark chromatin. When G-light chromatin is once again aligned with G-light chromatin, lack of homology again will be recognized and either homologous synapsis will be reinitiated (as in an inversion loop), or will cease altogether (as in some translocations). Unlike the previously described ``synaptic adjustment,'' this nonhomologous synapsis of G-light with G-dark chromatin appears to compete with homologous synapsis during early pachynema.
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