McCartney P R, Renwick J H, Munday M R
Heredity (Edinb). 1977 Feb;38(1):37-45. doi: 10.1038/hdy.1977.5.
In this study, we have attempted to detect and describe patterns in the arrangement of gene loci within chromosomes of a metazoon. Known loci (842 of them) on the first three chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster have been characterised according to a list of 45 properties and the distributions of these properties have been examined systematically. For all these properties, there is little, if any, evidence of clustering between known loci that are not close enough to belong to the same 10-locus group. Our analysis has, however, revealed evidence confirming that some properties show a tendency to cluster within a 10-locus group. Even this tendency is not strong, except for some of the morphological properties. However, it is apparently at variance with the findings of Elston and Glassman (1967), based on fewer data.
在本研究中，我们试图检测并描述后生动物染色体上基因位点的排列模式。黑腹果蝇前三对染色体上的已知位点（共842个）已根据45种特性列表进行了特征描述，并对这些特性的分布进行了系统研究。对于所有这些特性，几乎没有证据表明那些距离不够近、不属于同一10位点组的已知位点之间存在聚类现象。然而，我们的分析揭示了一些证据，证实某些特性在10位点组内呈现出聚类倾向。即便这种倾向并不强烈，除了某些形态学特性之外。然而，这显然与埃尔斯顿和格拉斯曼（1967年）基于较少数据得出的研究结果不一致。
