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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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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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.


This work was supported by the Natural Science Research Council (Project 1051049). I thank Jaakko Lumme and Allen Orr for comments on the manuscript.


Department of Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, SF 90570, Finland


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