Linkage analyses of sex-determining factors in a Fijian housefly strain,
Suva Dump Fiji (SDF), were performed by using genetically marked autosomes. Although a Y chromosome could not be detected, the presence of at least three kinds of autosomal male-determining factors, I
M, II
M and III
M, was demonstrated in males of this strain. Both males and females of this strain carried the II
M-chromosome in the homozygous state. In addition, the females carried a fourth chromosomal female determining factor (
F), which acts epistatically over the plural number of M factors.
It is known that no crossing-over occurs in normal XY-type housefly males. However, XX males heterozygous for the I
M-chromosome extracted from the
SDF strain and a
acv bp marker chromosome produced recombinants with very low frequency. These recombinants seemed to be the resultants of male crossing-over at the meiotic cell stage. On the basis of male-recombination data, the
M factor on the first chromosome was mapped on the right side of
bp locus.
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