Journal article

Publication year: 1998

Pages: 79-85

Journal: Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volume number: 115

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0931-2668

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The behaviour of meiotic chromosomes of a ram carrying the reciprocal translocation (1;20)(p23,q24) was studied by synaptonemal complex analysis in an electron microscope and conventionally stained meiotic chromosome spreads in a light microscope. In all of the studied primary spermatocytes a cross-shaped quadrivalent configuration at pachytene stage was identified. No association or pairing between the sex bivalent and the quadrivalent was recognized. On conventionally stained preparations a high incidence of polyploid reads was found. Among 21 analysable metaphase II spreads 24 % were diploid and 9 % were id. A single spread was hyperhaploid (n = 28). At diakinesis and metaphase I stages a ring-quadrivalent was observed. At these stages the polyploid cells occurred with a frequency of 25 and 18 %, respectively.

Harvard Citation style: Switonski, M., Kovacs, B., Erhardt, G. and Stranzinger, G. (1998) Meiotic chromosome studies in a ram carrying a reciprocal translocation, Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 115(1), pp. 79-85

APA Citation style: Switonski, M., Kovacs, B., Erhardt, G., & Stranzinger, G. (1998). Meiotic chromosome studies in a ram carrying a reciprocal translocation. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 115(1), 79-85.