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CHAPTER 13
Gene Mapping In Eukaryotes
1. Both the white eye gene (w) and a gene for miniature wings (m) are on the
Drosophila X chromosome. Morgan (1911) crossed a female white miniature
(w m/w m) with a wild-type male (w + m+/ Y)
(Figure 13.1).
a. In the F1, all males were white-eyed with miniature wings (w m/Y), and all females
were wild-type for both eye color and wing size (w+m+/w m).
b. F1 interbreeding is the equivalent of a testcross for these X-linked genes, since the
male is hemizygous recessive, passing on recessive alleles to daughters and no X-
linked alleles at all to sons.
i. In the F2, the most frequent phenotypes for both sexes were the phenotypes of
the parents in the original cross (white eyes with miniature wings, and red eyes
with normal wings).
ii. Non-parental phenotypes (white eyes with normal wings or red eyes with
miniature wings) occurred in about 37% of the F2 flies. Well below the 50%
predicted for independent assortment, this indicates that non-parental flies
result from recombination of linked genes.
2. The study used a corn strain heterozygous for two genes on chromosome 9 (Figure 13.3):
a. One gene determines seed color (C for colored seeds, c for colorless).
b. The other gene is involved in starch synthesis. The wild-type allele (Wx) produces amylose, and the combination
of amylose and amylopectin forms normal starch in a corn seed. The waxy mutant (wx) lacks amylose, and has
waxy starch containing only amylopectin.
3. In this corn strain, the appearance of each chromosome 9 homolog correlated with its genotype:
a. One chromosome 9 had the genotype c Wx, and a normal appearance.
b. Its homolog had the genotype C wx, and cytological markers at each end of the chromosome. The end near the C
locus had a darkly staining knob, and the other end, nearer the wx locus, had a translocated piece of
chromosome 8.
4. When testcrossed, recombinant phenotypes were evident, and could be correlated with cytological
features:
a. Whenever the genes had recombined, the cytological features had also recombined.
b. In the parental (non-recombinant.) type progeny, no exchange of cytological markers was evident.
5. This was direct evidence of physical exchange between homologs resulting in genetic recombination.
iii. If P ≦ 0.01, deviation is highly statistically significant, and the data are not consistent with the hypothesis, which must
be rejected. If the hypothesis “the genes are not linked” is rejected, the only remaining option is that the genes are linked.
b. Single crossover shows second-division segregation. A and a are each being present in two
nuclear areas until the second division, and their pattern of gene segregation depends on the
chromatids involved. Both patterns are distinguishable from the 4:4 seen in first-division
segregation:
c. The distance from the gene of interest (here the mating type locus) to the centromere is the
percentage of second-division tetrads.
台大農藝系 遺傳學 601 20000 Chapter 13 slide 50
Fig. 13.21a Determination of gene-centromere distance of the mating-type locus in
Neurospora
1. A rare event occurring only in diploid cells, mitotic crossover can result
when replicated chromatids come together to form a structure similar to
the four-strand stage in meiosis (Figures 13.24 and 13.25).
2. If the starting genotype is d+ e / d e+ the two possible orientations of the
resulting chromatids are:
a. One cell with d+ e+ / d+ e+ and one with d e / d e. These are the ones
that are useful for mapping, because the recessive phenotype can be
observed in progeny of the d e / d e cells.