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Possible Distorting Effects Of Gef26 In Drosophila Melanogaster, Kaylie C. Church
Possible Distorting Effects Of Gef26 In Drosophila Melanogaster, Kaylie C. Church
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Segregation distortion is a meiotic drive system that results in the favorable inheritance of the SD chromosome over the SD+counterpart. SD produces a malfunctioning form of RanGAP, instead of being able to move in and out of the nucleus this truncated anGAP is unable to be exported and therefore aggregates within the nucleus. This appears to affect RspS during the condensation phase of spermatogenesis, but the exact mechanism for this is unknown. In order to further understand the working components of this system, specific deletions within the second chromosome were studied. The study was conducted systematically by beginning with …