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Terminal deficiency associated position effect variegation (TDA-PEV) of the y+ gene in Dp(1;f)γ878 is suppressed by Dp(1;f)γ158 ("trans-suppression").
Dp(1;f)γ878/Dp(1;f)γ158 heterozygotes exhibit a dramatic increase in y+ expression, relative to Dp(1;f)γ878 - nearly complete suppression of terminal deficiency induced PEV. Increased y+ expression is visible in the abdominal cuticle, wings and thoracic and triple row bristles.
Used in experiments that showed that efficient achiasmate homolog disjunction in female meiosis I requires 1000kb of overlap in the centric heterochromatin and is not affected by homologous euchromatin or overall size differences. Disjunction efficiency decreases linearly as heterochromatic overlap is reduced from 1000 to 430kb. Rescue experiments with nod transgenes showed that heterochromatin does not act solely to promote chromosome movement or spindle attachment. Centric heterochromatin seems to contain multiple pairing elements that act additively to initiate or maintain the proper alignment of achiasmate chromosomes in meiosis I.
Unchanged from progenitor. No visible structural alterations on the Dp(1;f)1187 derivative Dp1187-8-23.