Claim · model-written summary
The decrease in fragment number is probably due to an actual loss of fragments.
- Taxon
- A. cepa and A. fistulosum
Allium cepa
Allium fistulosume0 - Outcome
- decrease in numbere3
- Qualifier
- due to an actual losse3
Verbatim
e0“The hybrid between A. cepa and A. fistulosum is unusual because of the high frequency of complete pairing, fragmentation, and formation of chromatin bridges”
e3“The decrease in number is probably due to an actual loss”
Title
Crossing-Over, Fragmentation, and Formation of New Chromosomes in an Allium Species Hybrid
S. L. Emsweller; H. A. Jones Botanical Gazette 1938. doi:10.1086/334744
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation The A. cepa and A. fistulosum hybrid shows a high frequency of complete pairing, fragmentation and chromatin bridges.
- Observation Fragments increased in frequency from late pachytene to first telophase, then dropped.
- Mechanism The origin of the fragments is explained as a result of unusual crossing-over.
- Mechanism Digestion of fragments in the cytoplasm by enzymes is suggested as an explanation for their decrease.
- Observation Chromatin bridges were found at first and second anaphases and telophases.
- Mechanism The chromatin bridges probably arise from unusual crossing-over, some in inverted sectors.
- Mechanism The chromatin bridges arise to a considerable extent from a positional effect of insertion regions or homologous sectors.
- Mechanism Some chromatin bridges reach the microspores, depending on the chance orientation of their insertion regions.
- Mechanism In microspore mitosis, bridges are predicted to form an X configuration when insertion regions of one chromatid face opposite poles.
- Observation The X configuration in microspore mitosis was confirmed cytologically in Rhoeo discolor.
- Observation The presence of morphologically new chromosomes was determined in the first division of hybrid microspores.
- Mechanism The morphologically new chromosomes were undoubtedly formed by crossing-over between the two genomes.