Abstract
Locusta migratoria has only 70% of the germ line DNA value of the related species Schistocerca gregaria in spite of a uniform karyotype. This difference is maintained in the nuclei of the testis wall, ovariole tip, mid-gut diverticulum, Malpighian tubule and fat. The distribution of nuclear DNA contents is tissue specific but the peaks in the distributions do not conform with members of a doubling series. It is suggested that both phenomena may be connected with the mechanism of tissue differentiation in insects, the latter by differential replication of those chromosome regions which are active in particular tissues.
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