Abstract
Inversions are probably the most common type of chromosome aberrations found in natural animal and plant populations (Darlington, 1937; Dobzhansky, 1941). During the discussion of chromosome duplications, we saw that chromosome segments can be separated from their mother chromosome by breaks and then can be reinserted into another homologous chromosome in the reverse order (reverse tandem duplications; Chapter 12). If no duplication is involved in such a process, the chromosome aberration is called an inversion. Just as in the case of deletions and duplications, organisms can be heterozygous for an inversion, homozygous for an inversion, or homozygous for the standard order of genes in the chromosome (Fig. 13.1).
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Schulz-Schaeffer, J. (1980). Chromosome Inversions. In: Cytogenetics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6060-8_13
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