Absence of recombination in the male of Ceratitis capitata

Cladera, J.L.

Experientia 37(4): 342-343

1981


ISSN/ISBN: 0014-4754
PMID: 7238804
Document Number: 178945
The linkage relationship between the morphological locus nig for black pupa and the biochemical locus Est-1 in Ceratitis capitata (Wied.), was studied in the laboratory in Argentina. Although meiosis in the male was typically chiasmatic, the results obtained suggest that recombination does not take place.

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