STUDIES ON HYBRID STERILITY. II. LOCALIZATION OF STERILITY FACTORS IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA HYBRIDS

Studies on Hybrid Sterility. II. Localization of Sterility Factors in Drosophila Pseudoobscura Hybrids.

HE causation of hybrid sterility has long been one of the unsolved T problems of biology. To date, probably the greatest advance in this field has been made by FEDERLEY who discovered a failure of the meiotic chromosome pairing in the sterile hybrids between moths of the genus Pygaera. This finding has since been amply corroborated by other investigators in sterile hybrids both in animals and i...

On the Sterility of the Interracial Hybrids in Drosophila Pseudoobscura.

Genetics of male and female sterility in hybrids of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis.

The genetic basis of male and female sterility in hybrids of Drosophila pseudoobscura-Drosophila persimilis was studied using backcross analysis. Previous studies indirectly assessed male fertility by measuring testis size; these studies concluded that male sterility results from an X chromosome-autosome imbalance. By directly scoring for the production of motile sperm, male sterility is shown ...

Epistasis among Drosophila persimilis Factors Conferring Hybrid Male Sterility with D. pseudoobscura bogotana

The Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller model posits that hybrid incompatibilities result from genetic changes that accumulate during population divergence. Indeed, much effort in recent years has been devoted to identifying genes associated with hybrid incompatibilities, often with limited success, suggesting that hybrid sterility and inviability are frequently caused by complex interactions between mul...

Genetic Architechture of Male Sterility and Segregation Distortion in Drosophila Pseudoobscura Bogota-usa Hybrids

Running title: Genetics of speciation in Drosophila pseudoobscura. ABSTRACT Understanding the genetic basis of reproductive isolation between recently diverged species is a central problem in evolutionary genetics. Here, I present analyses of the genetic architecture underlying hybrid male sterility and segregation distortion between the Bogota and USA subspecies of D. pseudoobscura. Previously...