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Restoration of meiotic stability following artificial hybridisation and selection in Teleogryllus (Orth., Gryllidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

T. W. Hogan  and
P. G. Fontana
T. W. Hogan
Affiliation:
Victorian Plant Research Institute, Burnley, Victoria 3121, Australia
P. G. Fontana
Affiliation:
“Attwood” Veterinary Research Laboratory, Victoria Department of Agriculture, West Meadows Victoria 3047, Australia
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As part of a research project directed at the genetic control of Teleogryllus commodus (Wlk.) in Australia, hybridisation studies have been carried out between T. commodus and the sibling species T. oceanicus (Le Guillou). A cytological examination of a hybrid strain (male progeny of T. commodus × T. oceanicus backcrossed to T. oceanicus) was made in the F4 generation when meiotic stability had been reached. The karyotype was very similar to that of T. oceanicus, suggesting that only those combinations in which the chromosomes were structurally homologous to T. oceanicus survived. But the stridulation pattern of the hybrid males, intermediate between that of the two parental species, and a consistent sex ratio of 2:1 in favour of the males, indicate profound genetic differences from T. oceanicus. These effects are attributed to introgression, with chromosomal material from T. commodus being incorporated in the T. oceanicus genome as an outcome of the initial hybridisation of the two species.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , July 1973 , pp. 557 - 563
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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