Quantitative effects of P elements on hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

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Genetic analyses involving chromosomes from seven inbred lines derived from a single M' strain were used to study the quantitative relationships between the incidence and severity of P-M hybrid dysgenesis and the number of genomic P elements. In four separate analyses, the mutability of sn(w), a P element-insertion mutation of the X-linked singed locus, was found to be inversely related to the number of autosomal P elements. Since sn(w) mutability is caused by the action of the P transposase, this finding supports the hypothesis that genomic P elements titrate the transposase present within a cell. Other analyses demonstrated that autosomal transmission ratios were distorted by P element action. In these analyses, the amount of distortion against an autosome increased more or less linearly with the number of P elements carried by the autosome. Additional analyses showed that the magnitude of this distortion was reduced when a second P element-containing autosome was present in the genome. This reduction could adequately be explained by transposase titration; there was no evidence that it was due to repressor molecules binding to P elements and inhibiting their movement. The influence of genomic P elements on the incidence of gonadal dysgenesis was also investigated. Although no simple relationship between the number of P elements and the incidence of the trait could be discerned, it was clear that even a small number of elements could increase the incidence markedly. The failure to find a quantitative relationship between P element number and the incidence of gonadal dysgenesis probably reflects the complex etiology of this trait.

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Rasmusson, K. E., Simmons, M. J., Raymond, J. D., & McLarnon, C. F. (1990). Quantitative effects of P elements on hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics, 124(3), 647–662. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/124.3.647

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