遺伝学雑誌
Online ISSN : 1880-5787
Print ISSN : 0021-504X
ISSN-L : 0021-504X
65 巻, 3 号
選択された号の論文の6件中1~6を表示しています
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  • Etsuko T. MATSUURA, Sadao I. CHIGUSA, Yuzo NIKI
    1990 年 65 巻 3 号 p. 87-93
    発行日: 1990年
    公開日: 2006/06/10
    ジャーナル フリー
    The transmission of foreign mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was investigated in heteroplasmic lines of Drosophila melanogaster constructed by germ-plasm transplantation and maintained at 19°C. When D. melanogaster was used as a germ-plasm donor, donor mtDNA was retained in all four heteroplasmic lines examined. Individual females were found to be heteroplasmic at the 17th and 18th generations. Donor mtDNA derived from D. mauritiana was found to have decreased in all four heteroplasmic lines examined. It could no longer be found after the 16th generation. This difference in the modes of transmission of donor mtDNA in intra- and interspecific combinations of heteroplasmy indicates that there may be certain species-specific functions which propagate and transmit endogenous mtDNA under the nuclear genome of D. melanogaster.
  • Yuichiro HIRAIZUMI
    1990 年 65 巻 3 号 p. 95-108
    発行日: 1990年
    公開日: 2006/06/10
    ジャーナル フリー
    Hiraizumi et al. (1973b) concluded that maternal-fetal ABO incompatibility effect upon the frequency of prenatal deaths was totally absent in two modern Japanese cities, Ohdate and Akita. However, they found a significant heterogeneity in the frequency of prenatal deaths among 16 mating types and suggested that the viability of A-bearing fetuses was higher than that of others, hence the frequency of prenatal deaths decreased with the increasing probability of producing A-bearing fetuses.
    Further analyses were performed in the present study and the above suggestion was confirmed. Then, the average numbers of prenatal deaths and pregnancies per couple were analyzed separately for their relationships with the probability of producing an A-bearing fetus. The results were found to be consistent with the model that the average numbers of prenatal losses per couple are approximately the same between two groups of matings, one producing and the other not producing A-bearing fetuses, but such losses occur more frequently for the A-bearing fetuses than others at the very early stage of pregnancy such that wives may not recognize such losses. Although the stages of losses are different between A-bearing and other fetuses, the net losses are nearly the same between them, so that such losses will not be reflected in the segregation frequencies among children, as shown by Hiraizumi et al. (1973a).
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