Abstract
Inversions are very important and useful chromosome aberrations. An inverted chromosome has a segment that is rearranged in reverse order. If this segment includes the centromere, it is a pericentric inversion. If the event does not include the centromere, it is a paracentric inversion. The cytogenetics of inversions are very complicated. Rather than discuss the behavior of inversions here and distort the subject by oversimplifications and omissions imposed by space limitations the reader is directed to cytogenetic texts by Burnham (1962) and others and to the original papers by McClintock (1931, 1938), Rhoades and McClintock (1935), Russell and Burnham (1950), Morgan (1950), Rhoades and Dempsey (1953), and others.
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Doyle, G.G. (1994). Inversions and List of Inversions Available. In: Freeling, M., Walbot, V. (eds) The Maize Handbook. Springer Lab Manuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2694-9_50
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