Heterochromatic banding patterns on chromosomes of twelve weevil species (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionidea: Apionidae, Curculionidae)

• Authors: M. Holecova , M. Rozek , D. Lachowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The C-banding patterns of twelve weevil species are presented. The obtained results confirm the existence of two groups of species: with a small or large amount of heterochromatin in the karyotype. The first group comprises seven species (Apionidae: Holotrichapion pisi; Curculionidae: Phyllobius urticae, Ph. pyri, Ph. maculicornis, Tanymecus palliatus, Larinodontes turbinatus, Cionus tuberculosus). In weevils with a small amount of heterochromatin, tiny grains on the nucleus in interphase are visible, afterwards in mitotic and meiotic prophase appearing as dark dots. The absence of C-bands does not indicate a lack of heterochromatin but heterochromatic regions are sometimes so small that the condensation is not visible during the cell cycle. The second group comprises five species (Otiorhynchus niger, O. morio, Polydrusus corruscus, Barypeithes chevrolati, Nedyus quadrimaculatus) which possess much larger heteropicnotic parts of chromosomes visible during all nuclear divisions. The species examined have paracentromeric C-bands on autosomes and the sex chromosome X, except for Otiorhynchus niger, which also has an intercalary bands on one pair of autososomes. All the species examined differ in the size of segments of constitutive heterochromatin. The y heterochromosome is dot-like and wholly euchromatic in all the studied species.

Keywords

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APIONIDAE; C-BAND; CURCULIONIDAE; CURCULIONOIDEA; KARYOTYPE

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia Biologica
• Year: 2002
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 129-134

Contributors

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M. Holecova

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M. Rozek

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D. Lachowska

• Document Type: ARTICLE
• Publication order reference: M. Holecova, Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina B-1, 842-15 Bratislava, Slovakia