Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-pvkqz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-08-06T13:59:36.017Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

IV.—Meiosis in the Striped Hamster (Cricetulus griseus Milne-Edw.) and the Problem of Heterochromatin in Mammalian Sex-Chromosomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

G. Pontecorvo
G. Pontecorvo
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, and Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow.
Get access

Extract

According to Ellerman (1941), the seventy-odd forms of palæarctic rodents that go under the name of “True Hamsters” (family Murinæ, subfamily Cricetinæ) fall into four genera with a total of 18 species: Cricetulus (11), Phodopus (3), Cricetus (1), and Mesocricetus (3), the last two genera being unified by some authors. So far only one species of this important group has been investigated from the point of view of chromosome properties: the Golden Hamster, Cricetus (Mesocricetus) auratus Waterhouse.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , 1944 , pp. 32 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1944

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

References to Literature

Ahmed, I. A., 1940. “The structure and behaviour of the chromosomes in the sheep during mitosis and meiosis,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., B, LX, 260–270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ahmed, I. A., 1941. “Cytological analysis of chromosome behaviour in three breeds of dogs,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., B, LXI, 107–118.Google Scholar
Badhuri, P. N., and Semmens, C. S., 1942. “Nucleolar staining method applied to animal tissues,” Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc., LXII, 21–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bridges, C. B., 1939. “Cytological and genetical basis of sex,” pp. 15–63 in Sex and internal secretions (Edit. Allen, E.), Baltimore, William & Wilkins.Google Scholar
Caspersson, T., and Santesson, L., 1942. “Studies on protein metabolism in the cells of epithelial tumours,” Ada Radiol. Suppl., XLVI, 1–105.Google Scholar
Darlington, C. D., 1939. The evolution of genetic systems, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Darlington, C. D., 1942. “Chromosome chemistry and gene action,” Nature, CXLIX, 66–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Darlington, C. D., Haldane, J. B. S., and Koller, P. C., 1934. “The possibility of incomplete sex-linkage in mammals,” Nature, CXXXIII, 417.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Darlington, C. D., and La Cour, L. F., 1940. “Nucleic acid starvation of chromosomes in Trillium,” Journ. Genet., XL, 185–213.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Darlington, C. D., and La Cour, L. F., 1942. The handling of chromosomes, London, Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Darlington, C. D., and Thomas, P. T., 1941. “Morbid mitosis and the activity of inert chromosomes in Sorghum,” Proc. Roy. Soc., B, CXXX, 127–150.Google Scholar
Darlington, C. D., and Upcott, M. B., 1941. “The activity of inert chromosomes in Zea mays,” Journ. Genet., XLI, 275–297.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ellerman, J. R., 1941. The families and genera of living rodents, vol. II, London, British Museum (Nat. Hist.).Google Scholar
Fisher, R. A., 1931. “The evolution of dominance,” Biol. Rev., VI, 345–368.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, R. A., and Mather, K., 1936. “A linkage test with mice,” Ann. Eugenics, VII, 265–280.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haldane, J. B. S., 1936. “A search for incomplete sex-linkage in man,” Ann. Eugenics, VII, 28–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haldane, J. B. S., 1942. New paths in genetics, London, Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1936. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. II. Marsupials,” Journ. Genet., XXXIV, 451–472.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1937. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. III. Man,” Proc. Roy. Soc Edin., B, LVII, 192–214.Google Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1938. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. IV. The Golden Hamster,” Journ. Genet., XXXVI, 177–195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1941. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. VII. Apodemus,” Journ. Genet., XLI, 375–389.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1941. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. VIII. The Cat (Felis domestica),” Proc. Roy. Soc Edin., B, LXI, 78–94.Google Scholar
Koller, P. C., 1943. “The origin of malignant tumour cells,” Nature, CLI, 244–251.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koller, P. C., and Darlington, C. D., 1934. “The genetical and mechanical properties of the sex chromosomes. I. Rattus norvegicus ♂,” Journ. Genet., XXIX, 159–173.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lewis, D., 1942. “The evolution of sex in flowering plants,” Biol. Rev., XVII, 46–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mather, K., 1943 a. “Polygenic inheritance and natural selection,” Biol. Rev., XVIII, 32–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mather, K., 1943 b. “Polygenic balance in the canalization of development,” Nature, CLI, 68–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Muller, H. J., 1932. “Further studies on the nature and causes of gene mutations,” Proc. 6th Int. Congr. Genet., I, 215–255.Google Scholar
Muller, H. J., 1939. “Reversibility in evolution from the standpoint of genetics,” Biol. Rev., XIV, 261–280.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neuhaus, M. E., 1939. “A cytogenetic study of the Y-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster,” Journ. Genet., XXXVII, 229–254.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oguma, K., and Makino, S., 1937. “A new list of the chromosome numbers of vertebrata (March 1937),” Journ. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., ser. vi, V, 297–356.Google Scholar
Pipkin, S. Bedichek, 1940. “Multiple sex genes in the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster,” Univ. Texas Publ. 4032, 126–156.Google Scholar
Renaud, P., 1938. “La formule chromosomiale chez sept espèces de Muscardinidæ et de Microtinæ indigènes,” Rev. Suisse Zool., XLV, 349–383.Google Scholar
Schultz, J., 1939. “The function of heterochromatin,” Proc. 7th Int. Congr. Genet., 257–262.Google Scholar
Schultz, J., 1941. “The evidence of the nucleoprotein nature of the gene,” Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol., IX, 55–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Semmens, C. S., and Badhuri, P. N., 1939. “A new method for differential staining of the nucleolus,” Stain. Tech., XIV, 1–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Slack, H. D., 1939. “Structural hybridity in Cimex,” Chromosoma, I, 104–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, M. J. D., 1942. “Nucleus, chromosomes and genes,” pp. 139–159 in Cytology and cell physiology (edit. Bourne, G.), Oxford, Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
Wright, S., 1941. “Tests for linkage in the guinea pig,” Genetics, XXVI, 650–669.CrossRefGoogle Scholar