A GENETIC SEXING STRAIN OF ANOPHELES-QUADRIMACULATUS, SPECIES-A
Authors:
- JA SEAWRIGHTJSJA SEAWRIGHT
- PE KAISERPKPE KAISER
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 3 (1) , 50-53
Abstract
A genetic sexing strain of a mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Species A, was synthesized for the preferential elimination of females during the egg stage. Malathion susceptibility was used as a conditional lethal, and the dominant malathion-resistance allele was linked to the Y chromosome via a radiation-induced reciprocal translocation involving the terminal end of the right arm of chromosome 3 and the Y chromosome. Examination of mitotic chromosomes and salivary polytene chromosome revealed the precise nature of the translation. Genetic leakage, through recombination, in the strain was very low (0.02%).Keywords
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