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Meiotic behaviour of identical and homologous rye chromosomes was investigated in colchicine-induced duplicated meiocytes obtained from different wheat-rye derivatives. A great reduction in the amount of metaphase I (MI) associations accompanied by a strong tendency for identical over homologous nonidentical preferential MI pairing was found in all of the four rye chromosome arms analysed. Both of these features appear to be associated with a more distal chiasma localization where the presence of an interstitial C-band has allowed two distinct regions within the same chromosome arm to be studied separately. On the other hand, the MI pairing failure observed for the rye chromosomes under analysis does not seem to be an effect of telomeric or interstitial C-heterochromatin.
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Benavente, E., Orellana, J. On the influence of decreased chiasma frequency on preferential MI pairing behaviour of rye chromosomes in wheat-rye derivatives. Chromosoma 101, 365–373 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00346016
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