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Comparative cytogenetics among Leporinus friderici and Leporellus vittatus populations (Characiformes, Anostomidae): focus on repetitive DNA elements
Anostomidae are a neotropical fish family rich in number of species. Cytogenetically, they show a conserved karyotype with 2n = 54 chromosomes, although they present intraspecific/interspecific variations in the number and chromosomal location of repetitive DNA sequences. The aim of the present stud...
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Published in: | Comparative cytogenetics 2019-04, Vol.13 (2), p.105-120 |
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Summary: | Anostomidae are a neotropical fish family rich in number of species. Cytogenetically, they show a conserved karyotype with 2n = 54 chromosomes, although they present intraspecific/interspecific variations in the number and chromosomal location of repetitive DNA sequences. The aim of the present study was to perform a comparative description of the karyotypes of two populations of
Leporinusfriderici
Bloch, 1794 and three populations of
Leporellusvittatus
Valenciennes, 1850. We used conventional cytogenetic techniques allied to fluorescence
in situ
hybridization, using 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and 5S rDNA, a general telomere sequence for vertebrates (TTAGGG)n and retrotransposon (RTE)
Rex1
probes. The anostomids in all studied populations presented 2n = 54 chromosomes, with a chromosome formula of 32m + 22sm for
L.friderici
and 28m + 26sm for
L.vittatus
. Variations in the number and location of the 5S and 18S rDNA chromosomal sites were observed between
L.friderici
and
L.vittatus
populations and species. Accumulation of
Rex1
was observed in the terminal region of most chromosomes in all populations, and telomere sequences were located just on all ends of the 54 chromosomes in all populations. The intraspecific and intergeneric chromosomal changes occurred in karyotype differentiation, indicating that minor chromosomal rearrangements had present in anostomid species diversification. |
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ISSN: | 1993-0771 1993-078X |
DOI: | 10.3897/CompCytogen.v13i2.33764 |