Abstract
Two T7OH/+ translocation-carrying male mice were used in an investigation into the relation between the segregation pattern of the translocation caused multivalent at anaphase I and the position of the only chiasma in a long interstitial segment. Moreover, the relation between meiotic stage (from early diakinesis to metaphase I) and chiasma movement was assessed. It appeared that pronounced movement of a chiasma within the multivalent was linked with chiasma terminalization in an adjacent segment, either on the same side of the translocation breakpoint or on the other side. On summing the CIV and CIII+I configurations (making up 97.9% of all configurations found) and focusing on the multivalents from late meiotic cells, 41.3% had a proximal chiasma in the long interstitial segment of the multivalent. In total, a percentage of 33.5% of all secondary spermatocytes were characteristic of adjacent-2 segregation (i.e., homologous centromeres move to the same pole at anaphase I). Results obtained with T7OH translocation trisomics, which are briefly discussed in this paper, confirm the tendency of proximal chiasma frequencies in late meiotic cells to coincide with the frequency of absence of homologous centromere separation within the T7OH translocation multivalent. The importance of this phenomenon for normal bivalent behavior during anaphase I is considered.
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