Lack of correlation between crossing-over and chromosome distance between inversions in Drosophila ananassae

Two linked inversions, AL and ZE, located in the opposite limbs of the second chromosome of Drosophila ananassae are separated from each other by nearly 32% of the total length of the second chromosome. Crossing-over between these inversions when heterozygous was studied in females and males by the salivary-gland smear technique using karyotypically homozygous stocks. The results of recombination experiments show that there is a strong suppression of recombination between inversions when heterozygous, in spite of a large euchromatic distance available for crossing-over between them. Thus there is no correlation between chromosome distance and crossing-over between heterozygous inversions in the second chromosome of D. ananassae when studied cytologically.