Spatial organization of chromosomes in oocytes and spermatocytes in malaria mosquitos
Stegniĭ, V.N.; Vasserlauf, I.E.
Genetika 31(2): 278-280
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-6758 PMID: 7721071 Document Number: 444383
It is shown that prophase chromosomes of oocytes in Anopheles messeae ovaries do not form local chromocenters, unlike spermatocytes, in which chromosomes fuse in a joint centromeric assembly. This fact reflects the dynamic nature of the system of chromocenter formation in generative tissues. During analysis of interspecific hybrids F1 A. maculipennis x A. subalpinus, no conjugation of homeologous chromosomes was observed, and the latter remained separated from one another.