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Male hybrids of the cross D. azteca x D. athabasca are larger (hybrid giant males) than their parents, whereas hybrid females are of the same size as the parental species. Microspectrophotometric measurements have shown that the larval polytene salivary gland chromosomes of hybrid giant males undergo one more endoreplication than those of their sisters or parents. Replication patterns of the larval salivary gland chromosomes were compared after pulse labeling with 3H-thymidine and autoradiography. In females of either species as well as of hybrids X-chromosomes and autosomes are equally labeled, i.e. all chromosome arms replicate synchronously. In males, however, often fewer sites are labeled on the X-chromosome than on the autosomes. In addition, in a significant number of nuclei from D. athabasca males and also from hybrid giant males the converse can also be observed: i.e. more sites are labeled on the X-chromosome than on the autosomes. The modified labeling patterns are interpreted as an indication of a time-shift in the replication of hemizygous X-chromosomes in males, in relation to the autosomes.
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Part of this work has been communicated at the German-Soviet Symposium about Genome Organization and Function, München, FRG, 1976
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Meer, B. Anomalous development and differential DNA replication in the X-Chromosome of a Drosophila hybrid. Chromosoma 57, 235–260 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00295210
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