Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-06-14eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63207
Irina N Moreva, Olga A Radchenko, Anna V Petrovskaya
{"title":"Differentiation of the frog sculpin <i>Myoxocephalus stelleri</i> Tilesius, 1811 (Actinopterygii, Cottidae) based on mtDNA and karyotype analyses.","authors":"Irina N Moreva, Olga A Radchenko, Anna V Petrovskaya","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A molecular genetic and karyological study of the frog sculpin <i>Myoxocephalus stelleri</i> Tilesius, 1811 was carried out on an extensive sample from a large area of the species' range. A total of 42 specimens was sampled from the Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and coastal waters off the southern Kuril Islands, which makes this sampling scheme the most comprehensive to date. The level of mtDNA polymorphism was found to be low. The haplotypes of the species formed three phylogenetic groups. The unique <i>M. stelleri</i> haplotype from the coast of Shikotan Island linked all the studied groups, indicating that it is likely ancestral. Robertsonian polymorphism was identified in the species. In all five cytotypes (I - 2n = 44, II - 2n = 43, III - 2n = 42, IV - 2n = 41, V - 2n = 40; NF = 44+2) were identified, all of which were present in the Sea of Japan. Only one (cytotype I) was found in the Sea of Okhotsk, which is probably the closest to the ancestral karyotype. The significant chromosomal polymorphism and the presence of common haplotypes in the studied samples indicate their recent origin from a common ancestor and/or relatively recent contacts within the range. The discrepancies between mtDNA and karyotypes in assigning the ancestral <i>M. stelleri</i> to the coastal waters off Shikotan Island (southern Kuril Islands) and the Sea of Okhotsk, respectively, can be explained by the different inheritance mechanisms and the rates of evolution of molecular genetic and karyological traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"179-197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8217076/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39101359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-06-04eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63084
Iryna A Kryshchuk, Victor N Orlov, Elena V Cherepanova, Yury M Borisov
{"title":"Unusual chromosomal polymorphism of the common shrew, <i>Sorex araneus</i> L., in southern Belarus.","authors":"Iryna A Kryshchuk, Victor N Orlov, Elena V Cherepanova, Yury M Borisov","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i2.63084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of the frequency of karyotypes and chromosomal rearrangements in the distributional ranges of four metacentric races of <i>Sorex araneus</i> Linnaeus, 1758 has revealed features that are not typical for polymorphic populations of this species. The frequency of the acrocentric karyotype and heterozygotes for fusion of acrocentric chromosomes turned out to be significantly higher than expected in case of random crossing. As an explanation for the unusual polymorphism, it has been suggested that metacentric races may hybridize with acrocentric populations that remained from the ancient chromosomal form.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"159-169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195942/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39236211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-06-04eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.66781
Vladimir E Gokhman
{"title":"Chromosomes of three gall wasps of the tribe Aylacini (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae).","authors":"Vladimir E Gokhman","doi":"10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.66781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.66781","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chromosomes of two species of the tribe Aylacini (Cynipidae), <i>Isocolus jaceae</i> (Schenck, 1863) and <i>I. scabiosae</i> (Giraud, 1859) (both have 2n = 18) were studied for the first time. In addition, 2n = 20 is confirmed in a member of the same tribe, <i>Aulacidea hieracii</i> (Bouché, 1834). All chromosomes of these gall wasps are biarmed; however, they gradually decrease in size in the case of <i>A. hieracii</i>, whereas a pair of large metacentrics is characteristic of karyotypes of both <i>Isocolus</i> Förster, 1869 species. Chromosomes of the two latter gall wasps are either metacentric or submetacentric, but elements with lower centromeric indices prevail in the karyotype of <i>A. hieracii</i>. Chromomycin A<sub>3</sub> (CMA<sub>3</sub>)/DAPI staining revealed single CMA<sub>3</sub>-positive bands on a particular pair of chromosomes of all species, and these bands apparently refer to the nucleolus organizing regions (NORs). However, localization of CMA<sub>3</sub>-positive bands differs substantially between the studied members of <i>Isocolus</i> and <i>Aulacidea</i> Ashmead, 1897. Together with normal haploid and diploid mitotic divisions, several metaphase plates with 2n = 17 containing a peculiar dicentric chromosome were found in a single male specimen of <i>I. scabiosae</i>; this appears to be the first report of an obvious dicentric in the order Hymenoptera in general. Certain aspects of the chromosome diversity and karyotype evolution within the family Cynipidae and the tribe Aylacini in particular are briefly discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"171-178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195943/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39236212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karyotype and COI sequences of Chironomus sokolovae Istomina, Kiknadze et Siirin, 1999 (Diptera,Chironomidae) from the bay of Orkhon River, Mongolia","authors":"Viktor V. Bolshakov,Alexander A. Prokin","doi":"10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.66549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.66549","url":null,"abstract":"Chironomus sokolovae Istomina, Kiknadze et Siirin, 1999 (Diptera, Chironomidae) is recorded from Mongolia for the first time. Eleven banding sequences determined in the Mongolian population were previously known from Altai and Yenisei populations: sokA1, sokB1, sokB2, sokC1, sokC2, sokD1, sokD2, sokE1, sokF1, sokF2 and sokG1. The additional B-chromosomes are absent. DNA-barcoding of COI gene was carried out for this species for the first time. The phylogenetic tree estimated by Bayesian inference showed a high similarity of the studied species with Ch. acutiventris Wülker, Ryser et Scholl, 1983 from the Chironomus obtusidens-group. The estimated genetic distance K2P between Ch. sokolovae and Ch. acutiventris is much lower (0.38%) than the commonly accepted threshold of 3% for species of genus Chironomus Meigen, 1803. Our results show that the accepted cytogenetic criteria of species level in the genus Chironomus are more in accordance with morphological ones of the same level, than with molecular-genetic criteria accepted for species COI genetic distance.","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"59 1","pages":"149-157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-05-27eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.66549
Viktor V Bolshakov, Alexander A Prokin
{"title":"Karyotype and COI sequences of <i>Chironomus sokolovae</i> Istomina, Kiknadze et Siirin, 1999 (Diptera,Chironomidae) from the bay of Orkhon River, Mongolia.","authors":"Viktor V Bolshakov, Alexander A Prokin","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.66549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.66549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Chironomus sokolovae</i> Istomina, Kiknadze et Siirin, 1999 (Diptera, Chironomidae) is recorded from Mongolia for the first time. Eleven banding sequences determined in the Mongolian population were previously known from Altai and Yenisei populations: sokA1, sokB1, sokB2, sokC1, sokC2, sokD1, sokD2, sokE1, sokF1, sokF2 and sokG1. The additional B-chromosomes are absent. DNA-barcoding of COI gene was carried out for this species for the first time. The phylogenetic tree estimated by Bayesian inference showed a high similarity of the studied species with <i>Ch. acutiventris</i> Wülker, Ryser et Scholl, 1983 from the <i>Chironomus obtusidens</i>-group. The estimated genetic distance K2P between <i>Ch. sokolovae</i> and <i>Ch. acutiventris</i> is much lower (0.38%) than the commonly accepted threshold of 3% for species of genus <i>Chironomus</i> Meigen, 1803. Our results show that the accepted cytogenetic criteria of species level in the genus <i>Chironomus</i> are more in accordance with morphological ones of the same level, than with molecular-genetic criteria accepted for species COI genetic distance.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"149-157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8175322/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39065659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-05-20eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.58278
Jiabao Li, Kailin Zhu, Qin Wang, Xin Chen
{"title":"Genome size variation and karyotype diversity in eight taxa of <i>Sorbus</i> sensu stricto (Rosaceae) from China.","authors":"Jiabao Li, Kailin Zhu, Qin Wang, Xin Chen","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.58278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.58278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eight taxa of <i>Sorbus</i> Linnaeus, 1753 sensu stricto (Rosaceae) from China have been studied karyologically through chromosome counting, chromosomal measurement and karyotype symmetry. Genome size was also estimated by flow cytometry. Six taxa, <i>S. amabilis</i> Cheng ex T.T.Yu et K.C.Kuan, 1963, S. hupehensis var. paucijuga (D.K. Zang et P.C. Huang, 1992) L.T. Lu, 2000, <i>S. koehneana</i> C.K. Schneider, 1906, <i>S. pohuashanensis</i> (Hance, 1875) Hedlund, 1901, <i>S. scalaris</i> Koehne, 1913 and <i>S. wilsoniana</i> C.K. Schneider, 1906 are diploids with 2n = 34, whereas two taxa, <i>S. filipes</i> Handel-Mazzetti,1933 and <i>S. ovalis</i> McAllister, 2005 are tetraploid with 2n = 68. In general, the chromosome size is mainly small, and karyotypes are symmetrical with predominance of metacentric chromosomes. Genome size variation of diploids and tetraploids is 1.401 pg -1.676 pg and 2.674 pg -2.684 pg, respectively. Chromosome numbers of <i>S. amabilis</i> and S. hupehensis var. paucijuga, and karyotype and genome size of eight taxa studied are reported for the first time. This study emphasised the reliability of flow cytometry in genome size determination to infer ploidy levels in Chinese native <i>Sorbus</i> species.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"137-148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39034942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genome size variation and karyotype diversity in eight taxa of Sorbus sensu stricto (Rosaceae) from China","authors":"Jiabao Li,Kailin Zhu,Qin Wang,Xin Chen","doi":"10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.58278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.58278","url":null,"abstract":"Eight taxa of Sorbus Linnaeus, 1753 sensu stricto (Rosaceae) from China have been studied karyologically through chromosome counting, chromosomal measurement and karyotype symmetry. Genome size was also estimated by flow cytometry. Six taxa, S. amabilis Cheng ex T.T.Yu et K.C.Kuan, 1963, S. hupehensis var. paucijuga (D.K. Zang et P.C. Huang, 1992) L.T. Lu, 2000, S. koehneana C.K. Schneider, 1906, S. pohuashanensis (Hance, 1875) Hedlund, 1901, S. scalaris Koehne, 1913 and S. wilsoniana C.K. Schneider, 1906 are diploids with 2n = 34, whereas two taxa, S. filipes Handel-Mazzetti,1933 and S. ovalis McAllister, 2005 are tetraploid with 2n = 68. In general, the chromosome size is mainly small, and karyotypes are symmetrical with predominance of metacentric chromosomes. Genome size variation of diploids and tetraploids is 1.401 pg –1.676 pg and 2.674 pg –2.684 pg, respectively. Chromosome numbers of S. amabilis and S. hupehensis var. paucijuga, and karyotype and genome size of eight taxa studied are reported for the first time. This study emphasised the reliability of flow cytometry in genome size determination to infer ploidy levels in Chinese native Sorbus species.","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"25 1","pages":"137-148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-04-26eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.60649
Pun Yeesin, Phichaya Buasriyot, Sukhonthip Ditcharoen, Patcharaporn Chaiyasan, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Sippakorn Juntaree, Sitthisak Jantarat, Sucheela Talumphai, Marcelo de Bello Cioffi, Thomas Liehr, Alongklod Tanomtong, Weerayuth Supiwong
{"title":"Comparative study of four <i>Mystus</i> species (Bagridae, Siluriformes) from Thailand: insights into their karyotypic diversity.","authors":"Pun Yeesin, Phichaya Buasriyot, Sukhonthip Ditcharoen, Patcharaporn Chaiyasan, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Sippakorn Juntaree, Sitthisak Jantarat, Sucheela Talumphai, Marcelo de Bello Cioffi, Thomas Liehr, Alongklod Tanomtong, Weerayuth Supiwong","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.60649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.60649","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Karyotypes of four catfishes of the genus <i>Mystus</i> Scopoli, 1777 (family Bagridae), <i>M. atrifasciatus</i> Fowler, 1937, <i>M. mysticetus</i> Roberts, 1992, <i>M. singaringan</i> (Bleeker, 1846) and <i>M. wolffii</i> (Bleeker, 1851), were analysed by conventional and Ag-NOR banding as well as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques. Microsatellite d(GC)<sub>15</sub>, d(CAA)<sub>10</sub>, d(CAT)<sub>10</sub> and d(GAA)<sub>10</sub> repeat probes were applied in FISH. The obtained data revealed that the four studied species have different chromosome complements. The diploid chromosome numbers (2n) and the fundamental numbers (NF) range between 52 and 102, 54 and 104, 56 and 98, or 58 and 108 in <i>M. mysticetus</i>, <i>M. atrifasciatus</i>, <i>M. singaringan</i> or <i>M. wolffii</i>, respectively. Karyotype formulae of <i>M. mysticetus</i>, <i>M. atrifasciatus</i>, <i>M. singaringan</i> and <i>M. wolffii</i> are 24m+26sm+4a, 26m+24sm+2a, 24m+18sm+14a and 30m+22sm+6a, respectively. A single pair of NORs was identified adjacent to the telomeres of the short arm of chromosome pairs 3 (metacentric) in <i>M. atrifasciatus</i>, 20 (submetacentric) in <i>M. mysticetus</i>, 15 (submetacentric) in <i>M. singaringan</i>, and 5 (metacentric) in <i>M. wolffii</i>. The d(GC)<sub>15</sub>, d(CAA)<sub>10</sub>, d(CAT)<sub>10</sub> and d(GAA)<sub>10</sub> repeats were abundantly distributed in species-specific patterns. Overall, we present a comparison of cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic patterns of four species from genus <i>Mystus</i> providing insights into their karyotype diversity in the genus.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"119-136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093182/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38968063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pun Yeesin,Phichaya Buasriyot,Sukhonthip Ditcharoen,Patcharaporn Chaiyasan,Chatmongkon Suwannapoom,Sippakorn Juntaree,Sitthisak Jantarat,Sucheela Talumphai,Marcelo de Bello Cioffi,Thomas Liehr,Alongklod Tanomtong,Weerayuth Supiwong
{"title":"Comparative study of four Mystus species (Bagridae, Siluriformes) from Thailand: insights into their karyotypic diversity","authors":"Pun Yeesin,Phichaya Buasriyot,Sukhonthip Ditcharoen,Patcharaporn Chaiyasan,Chatmongkon Suwannapoom,Sippakorn Juntaree,Sitthisak Jantarat,Sucheela Talumphai,Marcelo de Bello Cioffi,Thomas Liehr,Alongklod Tanomtong,Weerayuth Supiwong","doi":"10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.60649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v15.i2.60649","url":null,"abstract":"Karyotypes of four catfishes of the genus Mystus Scopoli, 1777 (family Bagridae), M. atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937, M. mysticetus Roberts, 1992, M. singaringan (Bleeker, 1846) and M. wolffii (Bleeker, 1851), were analysed by conventional and Ag-NOR banding as well as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques. Microsatellite d(GC)15, d(CAA)10, d(CAT)10 and d(GAA)10 repeat probes were applied in FISH. The obtained data revealed that the four studied species have different chromosome complements. The diploid chromosome numbers (2n) and the fundamental numbers (NF) range between 52 and 102, 54 and 104, 56 and 98, or 58 and 108 in M. mysticetus, M. atrifasciatus, M. singaringan or M. wolffii, respectively. Karyotype formulae of M. mysticetus, M. atrifasciatus, M. singaringan and M. wolffii are 24m+26sm+4a, 26m+24sm+2a, 24m+18sm+14a and 30m+22sm+6a, respectively. A single pair of NORs was identified adjacent to the telomeres of the short arm of chromosome pairs 3 (metacentric) in M. atrifasciatus, 20 (submetacentric) in M. mysticetus, 15 (submetacentric) in M. singaringan, and 5 (metacentric) in M. wolffii. The d(GC)15, d(CAA)10, d(CAT)10 and d(GAA)10 repeats were abundantly distributed in species-specific patterns. Overall, we present a comparison of cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic patterns of four species from genus Mystus providing insights into their karyotype diversity in the genus.","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"43 1","pages":"119-136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative CytogeneticsPub Date : 2021-04-23eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.63061
Jian Zhou, Shaojing Wang, Li'ang Yu, Ning Li, Shufen Li, Yulan Zhang, Ruiyun Qin, Wujun Gao, Chuanliang Deng
{"title":"Cloning and physical localization of male-biased repetitive DNA sequences in <i>Spinacia oleracea</i> (Amaranthaceae).","authors":"Jian Zhou, Shaojing Wang, Li'ang Yu, Ning Li, Shufen Li, Yulan Zhang, Ruiyun Qin, Wujun Gao, Chuanliang Deng","doi":"10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.63061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15i2.63061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spinach (<i>Spinacia oleracea</i> Linnaeus, 1753) is an ideal material for studying molecular mechanisms of early-stage sex chromosome evolution in dioecious plants. Degenerate oligonucleotide-primed polymerase chain reaction (DOP-PCR) technique facilitates the retrotransposon-relevant studies by enriching specific repetitive DNA sequences from a micro-dissected single chromosome. We conducted genomic subtractive hybridization to screen sex-biased DNA sequences by using the DOP-PCR amplification products of micro-dissected spinach Y chromosome. The screening yielded 55 male-biased DNA sequences with 30 576 bp in length, of which, 32 DNA sequences (12 049 bp) contained repeat DNA sequences, including <i>LTR/Copia</i>, <i>LTR/Gypsy</i>, simple repeats, and DNA/CMC-EnSpm. Among these repetitive DNA sequences, four DNA sequences that contained a fragment of <i>Ty3-gypsy</i> retrotransposons (SP73, SP75, SP76, and SP77) were selected as fluorescence probes to hybridization on male and female spinach karyotypes. Fluorescence <i>in situ</i> hybridization (FISH) signals of SP73 and SP75 were captured mostly on the centromeres and their surrounding area for each homolog. Hybridization signals primarily appeared near the putative centromeres for each homologous chromosome pair by using SP76 and SP77 probes for FISH, and sporadic signals existed on the long arms. Results can be served as a basis to study the function of repetitive DNA sequences in sex chromosome evolution in spinach.</p>","PeriodicalId":50656,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cytogenetics","volume":"15 2","pages":"101-118"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8087614/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38968062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}