In the silkworm, Bombyx mori, normal markings are mainly controlled by the +P gene, which is located on the second chromosome. Due to a lack of crossing over in females, reciprocal backcrossed F1 (BC1) progenies were used for linkage analysis and mapping of the +P gene based on an SSR linkage map using silkworm strains P50 and H9, which are normal marking and sex-limited marking, respectively. ...

Let S be a polynomial of degree 2n + 2, that is, positive on the real axis, and let w = 1/S on (−∞,∞). We present an explicit formula for the nth orthogonal polynomial and related quantities for the weight w. This is an analogue for the real line of the classical Bernstein-Szegő formula for (−1, 1). 1. The result The Bernstein-Szegő formula provides an explicit formula for orthogonal polynomial...

Methyl methane-sulfonate (MMS)-sensitive, radiation-induced mutants of Aspergillus were shown to define nine new DNA repair genes, musK to musS. To test mus mutations for effects on mitotic recombination, intergenic crossing over was assayed between color markers and their centromeres, and intragenic recombination between two distinguishable adE alleles. Of eight mutants analyzed, four showed s...

Abstract Oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) is sensitive to heat stress during the reproductive stage, but it not clear whether male and female organs differ in their sensitivity stress. In this study, full diallel crossing experiments were conducted among four genotypes of B. under control, moderate high conditions for five days immediately before two after crossing. General combining ability (...

The genomic structure of a human glycophorin variant, Miltenberger class V-like molecule (MiV*), was examined. Southern blot analysis of total genomic DNA revealed that the 5' half of the MiV* gene derived from glycophorin A (GPA) gene whereas the 3' half derived from glycophorin B (GPB) gene. This structure is reciprocal to another glycophorin variant, Sta, which has a GPB-GPA hybrid structure...

We investigate the ground states of a Bose-Einstein condensate of indirect excitons coupled to an electron gas. We show that in a properly designed system the crossing of a roton minimum into the negative energy domain can result in the appearance of the supersolid phase, characterized by periodicity in both real and reciprocal space. Accounting for the spin-dependent exchange interaction of ex...

Chromosomal interchanges, or reciprocal translocations, in maize are of primary interest because of the opportunities they offer for the study of chromosome behavior and crossing over. The great volume of work which has been done on crossing over and on translocations in Drosophila has yielded an abundance of statistical data on crossing over and chromosome distribution. For this type of work D...