New cytogenetic data on Nabidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), with a discussion of karyotype variation and meiotic patterns, and their taxonomic significance

Title:

New cytogenetic data on Nabidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), with a discussion of karyotype variation and meiotic patterns, and their taxonomic significance

Creator:

Kuznetsova , Valentina G., Grozeva, Snejava, and Nokkala, Seppo

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:68c2447c-b189-414f-9e21-5566e14f7921
uuid:68c2447c-b189-414f-9e21-5566e14f7921

Subject:

Heteroptera, Nabidae, karyotypes, meiosis, evolution, taxonomy, and phylogeny

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

As a part of ongoing cytogenetic studies on the bug family Nabidae (Heteroptera), the karyotypes and meiotic patterns of male Nabis (Aspilaspis) viridulus Spinola, 1837, N. (A.) indicus (Stål, 1873) (subfamily Nabinae) and Prostemma guttula (Fabricius, 1787) (subfamily Prostemmatinae) are described. N. viridulus and N. indicus differ from P. guttula in their chromosome numbers, which are 2n = 32 + XY and 2n = 26 + XY, respectively, and behaviour of the sex chromosomes in male meiosis, which, respectively, show "distance pairing" and "touch-and-go pairing" in spermatocyte metaphase II. The karyotype of 2n = 34 and "touch-and-go pairing" are considered to be plesiomorphic characters in Nabidae. The evolutionary mechanisms that might underlie different chromosome numbers, the taxonomic significance of karyotype variation and the distribution of meiotic patterns in the family, are discussed.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2004 Volume:101 | Number:2

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