Sterility is often attributed to
the different number of chromosomes the two species have, for example donkeys have 62 chromosomes, while horses have 64 chromosomes, and mules and hinnies have 63 chromosomes.
As the experiments continued, Singh noted that each generation of hybrids had
different numbers of chromosomes, reflecting their blend of soybean and tomentella chromosomes.
Not exact matches
However, the chimpanzee Y
chromosome appears to have undergone more changes in the
number of genes and contains a
different amount
of repetitive elements compared to the human or gorilla.
The researchers discovered that female and male cells behave differently after the reprogramming process and that this is due to their
different number of X
chromosomes — two in female cells and one in male cells.
They found that the
number of copies
of lncRNA genes on a
chromosome consistently change in 12
different cancer types and lncRNA genes are widely expressed in cancer cells.
The idea was to use the standard idea
of sex determined by sex
chromosomes — XX for female and XY for males — and to ask what would happen if culture affected the
different numbers of each being produced.
As the authors also observed in previous works, some aphids showed
different chromosome numbers also comparing cells belonging to a same individual «forgetting» that
chromosome instability within individuals should be typical
of malignant cells and not
of healthy insects showing a high reproductive rate.
Frequencies
of Lethal Loci in
Different Regions
of the Drosophila Genome Expressed in Terms
of the
Number of Polytene Bands in the Mutagenized Interval ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- -----------------------------------------
Chromosome Number of Bands Analyzed
Number of Lethal Loci Ratio
of Bands to Lethal Loci Extrapolation
of Lethal Loci per Genome X 450 298 0.66 3350 2 415 267 0.64 3260 3 343 235 0.69 3470 4 50 34 0.68 3440 Total 1253 836 0.67 3380