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Provedor de dados: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Comparative cytogenetics of three species of Dichotomius (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)	
Autores: 	Silva,Guilherme Messias da; Bione,Edgar Guimarães; Cabral-de-Mello,Diogo Cavalcanti; Moura,Rita de Cássia de; Simões,Zilá Luz Paulino; Souza,Maria José de.	
Data: 	2009-01-01	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Chromosome rearrangements; Heterochromatin; Karyotype; NORs; FISH.	
Resumo: 	Meiotic and mitotic chromosomes of Dichotomius nisus, D. semisquamosus and D. sericeus were analyzed after conventional staining, C-banding and silver nitrate staining. In addition, Dichotomius nisus and D. semisquamosus chromosomes were also analyzed after fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with an rDNA probe. The species analyzed had an asymmetrical karyotype with 2n = 18 and meta-submetacentric chromosomes. The sex determination mechanism was of the Xy p type in D. nisus and D. semisquamosus and of the Xyr type in D. sericeus. C-banding revealed the presence of pericentromeric blocks of constitutive heterochromatin (CH) in all the chromosomes of the three species. After silver staining, the nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) were located in autosomes of D. semisquamosus and D. sericeus and in the sexual bivalent of D. nisus. FISH with an rDNA probe confirmed NORs location in D. semisquamosus and in D. nisus. Our results suggest that chromosome inversions and fusions occurred during the evolution of the group.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572009000200012	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1415-47572009005000040	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.32 n.2 2009	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess