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Terminal associations occur commonly between meiotic homologues of the two smallest (S10, S11) chromosomes in the northern race of Cryptobothrus chrysophorus when they are either heterozygous or homozygous for distal supernumerary heterochromatic segments. A detailed examination of the origin and behaviour of these associations provides convincing evidence that they are non-chiasmate in character and so cannot be explained by either pseudoterminalisation or terminalisation. The same is true of the terminal associations involved in the persistent pseudomultiples that develop between non-homologues of Heteropternis obscurella when one or both of these carry distal heterochromatic segments. In both situations the C-bands involved in such terminal associations are entire and are never interrupted by non-banded material. In Cryptobothrus, similar associations can also develop between centromere regions when these are heterozygous or homozygous for proximal supernumerary heterochromatic segments.
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John, B., King, M. Pseudoterminalisation, terminalisation, and non-chiasmate modes of terminal association. Chromosoma 92, 89–99 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328460
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