Open AccessMechanisms of nondisjunction induction in drosophila oocytes.
Author(s) -
B. Leigh
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.793141
Subject(s) - nondisjunction , drosophila (subgenus) , biology , drosophila melanogaster , meiosis , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , oogenesis , chromosome , oocyte , aneuploidy , embryo , gene
Quantitative and qualitative studies on the induction of no-disjunction and related phenomena can be carried out using the germ cells of Drosophila. X-Irradiation breaks chromosomes and cold-shock disrupts spindles, these two treatments producing different spectra of nondisjunction in oocytes.
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