Analysis of meiotic chromosome structure and behavior in Robertsonian heterozygotes of Ellobius tancrei (Rodentia, Cricetidae): a case of monobrachial homology.

abstract：:The karyotypes and the localization of C-bands, clusters of ribosomal DNA and telomeric repeats of 10 species of the family Pamphagidae from Morocco are described for the first time. The species studied belong to the subfamilies Pamphaginae and Thrinchinae. All species have karyotypes consisting of 19 and 20 acrocentr...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Buleu OG,Jetybayev IY,Chobanov DP,Bugrov AG

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strains of the apparently well-known cosmopolitan synanthropic parasitoid of coleopteran stored-product pests, Lariophagusdistinguendus (Förster, 1841) from Western Europe, were studied using DNA sequencing and chromosomal analysis. The presence of at least two cryptic species with different COI sequences and ...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： König C,Paschke S,Pollmann M,Reinisch R,Gantert C,Weber J,Krogmann L,Steidle JLM,Gokhman VE

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an overview of research on chromatin diminution (CD) in copepods. The phenomenology, mechanisms and biological role of CD are discussed. A model of CD as an alternative means of regulating cell differentiation is presented. While the vast majority of eukaryotes inactivate genes that are no longer...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Grishanin A

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i2.49513.]. ...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Goes CAG,Daniel SN,Piva LH,Yasui GS,Artoni RF,Hashimoto DT,Foresti F,Porto-Foresti F

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic features of the hangingfly Bittacus sinicus Issiki, 1931 were investigated for the first time using C-banding and DAPI (4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) staining. The karyotype analyses show that the male B. sinicus possesses the lowest chromosome number (2n = 15) ever observed in Mecoptera, and an almost sy...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Miao Y,Hua BZ

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazilian fish cytogenetics started as early as the seventies in three pioneering research groups, located at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, Botucatu, SP), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar, São Carlos, SP) and Universidade de São Paulo (USP, São Paulo, SP). Investigations that have been conducted...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Bertollo LAC,Cioffi MB,Galetti PM Jr,Filho OM

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The subfamily Harpactorinae is composed of six tribes. Phylogenetic studies bring together some of Harpactorinae tribes, but by and large the data on evolutionary relationships of the subfamily are scarce. Chromosome studies are of great importance for understanding the systematics of different groups of insects. For ...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Tiepo AN,Pezenti LF,Ferraz Lopes TB,da Silva CR,Dionisio JF,Fernandes JA,Da Rosa R

更新日期：2016-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlids represent one of the most species-rich families of fishes and have attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists due to the rapid radiation occurring in some groups and the importance of some species in the world aquaculture. Cytogenetic analysis was conducted in 10 cichlid species from the Araguaia Rive...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Valente GT,Vitorino Cde A,Cabral-de-Mello DC,Oliveira C,Souza IL,Martins C,Venere PC

更新日期：2012-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The species-rich and widespread genus Taraxacum F. H. Wiggers, 1780 (Asteraceae subfamily Cichorioideae) is one of the most taxonomically complex plant genera in the world, mainly due to its combination of different sexual and asexual reproduction strategies. Polyploidy is usually confined to apomictic microspecies, v...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Macháčková P,Majeský Ľ,Hroneš M,Hřibová E,Bohumil Trávníček,Vašut RJ

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The B chromosome in the hylid Hypsiboas albopunctatus (2n = 22 + B) is small, almost entirely composed of C-positive heterochromatin, and does not pair with any chromosome of the A complement. B probe, obtained by microdissection and DOP-PCR amplification, was used to search for homology between the B and regular chro...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Gruber SL,Diniz D,Sobrinho-Scudeler PE,Fausto Foresti,Haddad CF,Kasahara S

更新日期：2014-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i1.10339.]. ...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Celeste SM,Ortiz AM,Robledo GA,Valls JFM,Lavia GI

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the karyotype, some aspects of spermatogenesis, and ovarian trophocytes ploidy in three aquatic bug species: Ilyocoris cimicoides (Linnaeus, 1758), Notonecta glauca Linnaeus, 1758, and Diplonychus rusticus Fabricius, 1871 from previously unexplored regions - South Europe (Bulgaria) and Southeast Asia (Vietna...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Stoianova D,Simov N,Vu MQ,Nguyen DM,Grozeva S

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The centromere is a chromosomal region where the kinetochore is formed, which is the attachment point of spindle fibers. Thus, it is responsible for the correct chromosome segregation during cell division. Telomeres protect chromosome ends against enzymatic degradation and fusions, and localize chromosomes in the cell...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Achrem M,Szućko I,Kalinka A

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The elephantfish family Mormyridae is the most diverse lineage of the primitive teleostean clade Osteoglossomorpha distributed in inland waters of all continents except Antarctica and Europe. The family Mormyridae is endemic to Africa and includes 22 genera and almost 230 species. The evolutionary radiation of mormyri...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Simanovsky S,Medvedev D,Tefera F,Golubtsov A

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the number of chromosomes was revealed in 61 samples of Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758 from the Czech Republic and other European countries, hosted on Myotis Kaup, 1829 (4) and Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 (57). The karyotype of all the specimens of Cimex lectularius analysed contained 26 autosomes and a...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Sadílek D,Sťáhlavský F,Vilímová J,Zima J

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phaneropterinae is the largest subfamily of Tettigoniidae, distributed across the globe. There are few cytogenetic studies regarding this group, as in the case of the genus group Aniarae, which represents only two karyotyped species. The current study aims to analyze cytogenetically three species of Hyperophora Brunne...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Cansanção Silva B,Henrique Bonfim Souza L,Chamorro-Rengifo J,Araujo D

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome counts and karyotype characterization have proved to be important features of a genome. Chromosome changes during the diversification of ants might play an important role, given the diversity and success of Formicidae. Comparative karyotype analyses on ants have enriched and helped ant systematics. Among le...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Pereira TTP,Dos Reis ACCC,Cardoso DC,Cristiano MP

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Pseudophoxinus Bleeker, 1860 is found in a wide range of habitats in central Anatolia, but it is not well known from a cytogenetic aspect. In this study the first karyotypic description of the spring minnows Pseudophoxinuscrassus (Ladiges, 1960) and Pseudophoxinushittitorum Freyhof & Özulug, 2010 by means of...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Unal S,Gaffaroğlu M,Ayata MK,Yüksel E

更新日期：2014-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tc1 mariner element is widely distributed among organisms and have been already described in different species of fish. The genus Ancistrus (Kner, 1854) has 68 nominal species and is part of an interesting taxonomic and cytogenetic group, as well as presenting a variation of chromosome number, ranging from 2n=34 t...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： da Silva KR,Mariotto S,Centofante L,Parise-Maltempi PP

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome morphometry and nuclear DNA content are useful data for cytotaxonomy and for understanding the evolutionary history of different taxa. However, the chromosome number is the only karyotype aspect reported for the species of Dorstenia so far. In this study, the nuclear genome size of Dorstenia arifolia (Lamar...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Amaral-Silva PM,Clarindo WR,Carrijo TT,Carvalho CR,Praça-Fontes MM

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The African chironomid Polypedilumvanderplanki Hinton, 1951 is the only chironomid able to withstand almost complete desiccation in an ametabolic state known as anhydrobiosis. The karyotypes of two allopatric populations of this anhydrobiotic chironomid, one from Nigeria and another from Malawi, were described accordi...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Petrova NA,Cornette R,Shimura S,Gusev OA,Pemba D,Kikawada T,Zhirov SV,Okuda T

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety individuals of the characid fish Astyanax fasciatus (Cuvier, 1819) were collected at Água da Madalena stream (Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil) and analyzed for diploid chromosome number 2n and karyotype composition as well as for the chromosomal location of the 5S and 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Whereas no chromosome...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Ferreira-Neto M,Artoni RF,Vicari MR,Moreira-Filho O,Camacho JP,Bakkali M,de Oliveira C,Foresti F

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An extreme example of nonrandom rearrangements, especially inversion breaks, is described in the polytene chromosomes of the black fly Simulium bergi Rubtsov, 1956 from Armenia and Turkey. A total of 48 rearrangements was discovered, relative to the standard banding sequence for the subgenus Simulium Latreille, 1802. ...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Adler PH,Yildirim A,Onder Z,Tasci GT,Duzlu O,Arslan MO,Ciloglu A,Sari B,Parmaksizoglu N,Inci A

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical and electron microscopic analysis of synaptonemal complexes (SCs) was carried out for the first time in homozygotes and complex Robertsonian heterozygotes (hybrids) of the common shrew, Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758, from a newly discovered hybrid zone between the Moscow and the Neroosa chromosomal r...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Matveevsky SN,Pavlova SV,Maret M Acaeva,Oxana L Kolomiets

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we analyzed individuals of Hypostomus soniae (Loricariidae) collected from the Teles Pires River, southern Amazon basin, Brazil. Hypostomus soniae has a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 64 and a karyotype composed of 12 metacentric (m), 22 submetacentric (sm), 14 subtelocentric (st), and 16 acro...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： de Oliveira LC,Ribeiro MO,Costa GM,Zawadzki CH,Prizon-Nakajima AC,Borin-Carvalho LA,Martins-Santos IC,Portela-Castro ALB

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of five Agropyron Gaertner, 1770 species were characterized using all potential di- or trinucleotide simple sequence repeat (SSR) motifs and four satellite DNA repeats as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes. The sites of 5S and 45S rDNA were relatively conserved among the diploid and tetraploi...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Zhao Y,Xie J,Dou Q,Wang J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Peanut, Arachis hypogaea (Linnaeus, 1753) is an allotetraploid cultivated plant with two subgenomes derived from the hybridization between two diploid wild species, A. duranensis (Krapovickas & W. C. Gregory, 1994) and A. ipaensis (Krapovickas & W. C. Gregory, 1994), followed by spontaneous chromosomal duplication. To...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： do Nascimento EFMB,Dos Santos BV,Marques LOC,Guimarães PM,Brasileiro ACM,Leal-Bertioli SCM,Bertioli DJ,Araujo ACG

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A new monotypic genus and species, Komodesia circuliplurimagen. et sp. n., from Flores Is. (Indonesia) and the new species, Antonina diversiglandulosasp. n., from Southern Thailand are described and illustrated. Chromosomes of these species and also the ones of Antonina purpurea Signoret, 1872 and Antonina thaiensis T...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Gavrilov-Zimin IA

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 has served as a model insect for over a century. Sequencing of the 11 additional Drosophila Fallen, 1823 species marks substantial progress in comparative genomics of this genus. By comparison, practically nothing is known about the genome size or genome sequences of parasitic wasp...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Gokhman VE,Johnston JS,Small C,Rajwani R,Hanrahan SJ,Govind S

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Plantago lagopus is a diploid (2n = 2x =12) weed belonging to family Plantaginaceae. We reported a novel B chromosome in this species composed of 5S and 45S ribosomal DNA and other repetitive elements. In the present work, presence of B chromosome(s) was confirmed through FISH on root tip and pollen mother cells. Seve...

journal_title：Comparative cytogenetics

authors： Dhar MK,Kour G,Kaul S

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00