Chromosome evolution in the lizard genus Gekko (Gekkonidae, Squamata, Reptilia) in the East Asian islands.

Abstract:

:The lizard genus Gekko consists of over 30 species distributed in Asia and Oceania. From the insular region of East Asia including Japan and Taiwan, 9 species (G. hokouensis, G. japonicus, G. shibatai, G. tawaensis, G. vertebralis,G. yakuensis, and 3 undescribed species) are currently recognized. We made karyological analyses for all these species. Their karyotypes invariably consisted of 2N = 38 chromosomes, but exhibited considerable variation in fundamental number (ranging from 56-62). Substantial chromosomal variation was detected even among populations of a morphologically relatively uniform species, G. hokouensis. Populations of G. hokouensis from the central and northern Ryukyus exhibited prominent female heteromorphic (i.e., ZW type) sex chromosomes. Populations of the southern Ryukyus exclusive of Yonagunijima also had ZW sex chromosomes, whose heteromorphisms were, however, much less prominent. The other G. hokouensis populations including the topotypic continental representatives and the population from Yonagunijima of the southern Ryukyus exhibited no sex chromosome heteromorphism at all. These results strongly suggest that G. hokouensis in the current taxonomic definition actually includes more than 2 species. The process of chromosomal evolution in the East Asian Gekko is hypothesized.

journal_name

Cytogenet Genome Res

authors

Shibaike Y,Takahashi Y,Arikura I,Iiizumi R,Kitakawa S,Sakai M,Imaoka C,Shiro H,Tanaka H,Akakubo N,Nakano M,Watanabe M,Ohne K,Kubota S,Kohno S,Ota H

doi

10.1159/000303334

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-01-01 00:00:00

pages

182-90

issue

2-4

eissn

1424-8581

issn

1424-859X

pii

000303334

journal_volume

127

pub_type

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