Wrinkling of the eye in hybrids between drosophila virilis and drosophila lummei is caused by interaction of maternal and zygotic genes

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ABSTRACT Hybrids of _Drosophila virilis_ females and _Drosophila lummei_ males have visible developmental anomalies in external adult structures. Reciprocal hybrids are normal, and the


anomalies are not found in other interspecific F1 hybrids of the _virilis_ subgroup. Antibiotic treatments with ampicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline did not cure the syndrome. The


genetic basis of the wrinkling of the compound eye was analysed in detail. Both male and female F1 progeny of _D. virilis_ mothers were affected, indicating that wrinkling of eyes is


maternally determined. F1 hybrid females produced healthy progeny. Backcross hybrid females (_D. virilis_ × F1) with 16 different combinations of autosomes, either heterozygous or homozygous


for _D. virilis_, were crossed with _D. lummei_ males. It was found that homozygous _D. virilis_ chromosomes 2 and 5 _together_ were necessary to induce the maternal effect. The hybrid


zygote responded to the maternal effect when the chromosomes 2, 4 and/or 5 were heterozygous. Elimination of the small sixth (dot) chromosome of _D. lummei_ from the hybrids was correlated


with the wrinkling of eyes, but was not the cause, as the two phenomena had a different genetic basis and temperature response. Furthermore, the eyes were wrinkled in flies which presumably


had had no _D. lummei_ dot chromosome to lose. SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS THE _DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER_ Y-LINKED GENE, _WDY_, IS REQUIRED FOR SPERM TO SWIM IN THE FEMALE


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Heikkinen, E. Wrinkling of the eye in hybrids between _Drosophila virilis_ and _Drosophila lummei_ is caused by interaction of maternal and zygotic genes. _Heredity_ 66, 357–365 (1991).


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